A Study Of English "Giving" Ditransitive Verbs Used By High School Studnets From The Perspective Of Construction Grammar

Ditranstive construction is a common construction in English grammar, which has been universally studied by scholars at home and abroad. By reviewing studies that have been conducted on construction and English ditransitive construction, grounded on the Construction Grammar, this study aims at exploring Chinese senior high school students'use of the three types of English ditransitive construction verbs (i.e., explicit-giving verbs, implicit-giving verbs and bare-giving verbs) and the two types of English ditransitive constructions (i.e., central ditransitive constructions and prepositional dative construction )The research results manifest that there are differences in Chinese senior high school students'use of the three types of English ditransitive construction verbs and the two types of English ditransitive constructions. Specifically, students use the implicit-giving verbs most frequently and the use of bare-giving verbs is the least, while the use of explicit-giving verbs is in between. In other words, Chinese senior high school students'acquisition of implicit-giving verbs is better than that of bare-giving verbs and explicit-giving verbs. In addition, the research results show that Chinese senior high school students incline to use the prepositional dative construction when using the English ditransitive construction, which reflects that Chinese senior high school students'acquisition of the prepositional dative construction is better than that of the central English ditransitive construction.The thesis includes six chapters.Chapter One is the introduction and it includes four parts. The first part introduces the research background; the second part indicates the research purpose; the third part states the research significance; the forth part introduces the organization of this study.Chapter Two is the literature review and it composes of three parts. The first part introduces the definition of construction and English ditransitive construction; the second part expounds the researches on English ditransitive construction, which includes the elaboration of the semantic constraints of the arguments and the research approaches on English ditransitive construction; the third part reviews the relative studies on Construction Grammar in China and abroad.Chapter Three is the theoretical framework and it consists of two parts. The first part introduces the theory of Construction Grammar, which composes of the definitions, the features and the research approaches of Construction Grammar; the second part expatiates researches on ditransitive construction verbs, which includes the researches on classifications of ditransitive construction verbs and classifications of ditransitive construction verbs in this study.Chapter Four is concerned with the research methodology and it composes of six parts. The first part introduces the pilot study; the second part raises the research questions; the third part describes the participants in this study; the forth part introduces the instruments; the fifth part introduces the collection of data; the last part analyzes the data collected.Chapter Five is the research results and discussion and it includes two parts. The first part is the research results and discussions on the first research question; the second part is the is the research results and discussions on the second research question.Chapter Six is the research conclusion of this study and it comprises of two parts. The first part introduces the major research findings; the second part points out the limitations of this study.