1.1 Research Background and Significance

1.2 Research Methodology

1.3 Research Questions

1.4 Structure of the Thesis

2.1 Studies of English GETTING Verbs

2.2 Studies of Chinese GETTING Verbs

2.3 Studies of the Cognition of GETTING Verbs

2.4 Summary

3. 1 Construction Grammar

3.2 Frame Semantics

3.3 Langacker’s Construal Theory

3.4 Summary

4.1 Chinese GETTING Verbs—Based on CN Corpus

4.2 English GETTING Verbs—Based on COCA

4.3 Similarities and Differences Between English and Chinese GETTING Verbs in Syntactic Realization

4.4 Summary

5.1 Similarities between English and Chinese GETTING Verbs in Conceptualization

5.2 Differences between English and Chinese GETTING Verbs in Conceptualization

5.3 Summary

6.1 Major Findings

6.2 Limitations and Further Suggestions of the Study