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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Causatives: Conventional Descriptions
2.1 On Causatives
2.2 Periphrastic Causatives Vs. Lexical Causatives
2.2.1 Periphrastic Causatives
2.2.2 Lexical Causatives
2.2.3 Periphrastic Causatives Vs. Lexical Causatives
2.3 Direct Causation Vs. Indirect Causation
2.4 Gradient of Causatives
2.5 Summary
Chapter Three Theoretical Premises: An Introduction to “Causal-Chain Windowing”
3.1 An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics
3.1.1 The Experiential View
3.1.2 The Prominence View
3.1.3 The Attentional View
3.2 “Windowing of Attention”
3.3 “Causal-chain Windowing”
3.4 Summary
Chapter Four An Analysis of Causatives: A “Causal-chain Windowing”Perspective
4.1 An Analysis of Resulting-event Causatives and Causing-event Causatives
4.1.1 Resulting-event Causatives
4.1.2 Causing-event Causative
4.1.3 Resulting-event Causatives Vs. Causing-event Causatives
4.2 Analysis of Instrument Causatives
4.3 Analysis of Author Causatives and Agent Causatives
4.3.1 Analysis of Author Causatives
4.3.2 Analysis of Agent Causatives
4.3.3 Author Causatives Vs. Agent Causatives
4.4 Analysis of Three-event Causatives
4.4.1 Instrument-plus-causing-event Causatives
4.4.2 Agent-plus-causing-event Causatives
4.4.3 Instrument-plus-resulting-event Causatives
4.4.4 Agent-plus-resulting-event Causatives
4.5 Major Findings of the Study
Chapter Five Practical Consideration: Application to Foreign Language Teaching
Chapter Six Conclusion
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