Figure 3.1 Relationships among psychology, logic, philosophy and cognitive science
Figure 3.2 Two types of metonymy
Figure 3.3 Mental process of the emergence of VCls
Figure 4.1 Cognitive model of verb-noun parallel
Figure 4.2 Distributions of boundaries on the time axis
Figure 4.3 The continuum of quantifiable verbs
Figure 4.4 The adjusted continuum of quantifiable verbs
Figure 4.5 Double boundaries on the time axis
Figure 4.6 Perspectives of construing a bounded action
Figure 4.7 Interaction of verbs and perspectives
Figure 4.8 Reclassification of roles relevant to a process
Figure 5.1 Distribution of Chinese classifiers across genres
Figure 6.1 The basic action frame involving fiao
Figure 6.2 Foot--~Action
Figure 6.3 Allostructions of VCls entering transitive constructions ~
Figure 6.4 The constructions with le and yijiao
Figure 6.5 Continuum of Type II constructions
Figure 6.6 Jiao: an indirect participant role
Figure 6.7 Frequencies of VC1 constructions offiao
Figure 7.1 The basic Action frame involving dao
Figure 7.2 Knife--Action
Figure 7.3 Subpart link between Construction i and Construction ii
Figure 7.4 Dao : an indirect participant role
Figure 7.5 Frequencies of VC1 constructions of dao
Figure 8.1 Event involving recurrence of ci
Figure 8.2 Actionquantity
Figure 8.3 Construal results of different vantage points
Figure 8.4 Schema of event noun
Figure 8.5 Yici
Figure 8.6 Construction vii : yici NP
Figure 8.7 Frequencies of VC1 constructions of ci