Preface Abstract List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction 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 Chapter 7 Syntactic Integration of Onset and Extended Causal Chains 7.1 Results 7.2 Discussion 7.3 Summary Chapter 8 Mapping Between Conceptual Event Integration and Syntactic Integration 8.1 Results 8.2 Discussion 8.3 Summary Chapter 9 Conclusions 9.1 Results 9.2 Discussion 9.3 Summary References Appendix 41 Patterns of Conceptual Event Integration Visualized by the Space-time Cube
