Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Construction Grammar and Problems 2.1 The Basic Tenets o{ Construction Grammar 2.2 Constructional Studies 2.3 Variations of Construction Grammar 2.4 Summary: Problems to Construction Grammar Chapter 3 Event-Encoding Hypothesis of Causatives 3.1 Causatives in General 3.2 Approaches to Causatives 3.3 Causatives as an Event based Construction 3.4 Event-Encoding Hypothesis of Causatives 3.5 Summary Chapter 4 Causative Construction as an Encoding of Events 4. I Three Levels to Syntax 4.2 The Semantic Features ot Causatives 4.3 The Syntactic Structure of Causatives 4.4 The Pragmatic Features of Causatives 4.5 Concluding Remarks Chapter 5 Conclusion and Implications 5.1 The Framework 5.2 Implications for Future Study Appendix Bibliography 后记