Preface
Abstract
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction ooi
1．1 Research background
1．2 Research objectives and research questions
1．3 Definition of some notions
1．4 Significance of the study
1．5 Organization of the book

Chapter 2 Representative Force Theories of Causation
2．1 Talmy's （1985） force dynamics theory
2．2 Croft's (2012） force-dynamic theory of argument realization
2．3 Wolff's (2003，2007） force theory
2．4 Summary
The Semantics of Causative Events：from the Perspective of Event Integration

Chapter 3 Event-based Theories of Onset and Extended
Causation
3．1 The philosophical studies on temporal relations between cause and effect
3．2 The psychological studies on perception of onset and extended causation
3．3 The studies on linguistic representations of onset and extended causation
3．4 Problems and considerations on onset and extended causation
3．5 Summary

Chapter 4 A Four-dimensional Model for Event Integration
4．1 The mereotopological studies on patterns of event integration
4．2 The cognitive linguistic studies on event integration theories
4．3 Building a four-dimensional model for event integration
4．4 Event integration model of causation and its patterns
4．5 Summary

Chapter 5 Case Study：Event Integration of Onset and
Extended Causation
5．1 Elicitation method
5．2 Contrastive analysis
5．3 Summary
Chapter 6 Conceptual Event Integration of Onset and Extended
Causal Chains
6．1 Results
6．2 Discussion
6．3 Summary
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Chapter 7 Syntactic Integration of Onset and Extended Causal Chains
Chapter 8 Mapping Between Conceptual Event Integration and Syntactic Integration
Chapter 9 Conclusions
References
Appendix 41 Patterns of Conceptual Event Integration
Visualized by the Space-time Cube