In this thesis,according to the scanning mode of sequence and assemble,causative is classified into sequential causative and assembled causative,and the latter is classified into close-distance assembled causative and far-distance assembled causative.

This dissertation examines English and Chinese locative verbs and their two argument structure alternations (locative alternation and the causative alternation) within the framework of some of the lexical-semantic theories as proposed by Rappaport Hovav and Levin (1988), Pinker (1989), Levin (1993), Levin and Rappap.

The close relation between SHI construction and BA construction is based on their shared semantic category ?causation.

In nature,both patterns are analytical causative constructions with different syntactic and semantic structures.

With help of typology, cognitive explanation and construction grammar combining the method of distribution and transform in structuralism, this thesis provides a detailed research on Modern Chinese Causative Construction.

As two different types of causative sentences,“shi”sentence and“bɑ”sentence have their own characteristics of force-dynamic schemas, which are the foundations to form different kinds of seman.

Cause is a covert element,and it has an independent position in syntactic structure.

The former should be comprehended as;during the course of kidnapping,the person being kidnapped is killed due to negligence as well as death without noninterference,including unavoidable suicide because of the kidnapping.

Within the framework of the prototype category theory, the present paper has made a study of the generation and expansion of the causation concept and the causative sentence in English.