Analysis of English causal sentences should be based on analysis of causal concept whose core is causal force,deciding factor of the causal concept.

This paper intends to interpret the actor of the resultant action in causative structure from the perspective of conceptual linguistics,previews the backgrounds and analyzes the phenomenon in terms of the causative force proposed by Jackendoff,as well as the identities and differences in English and Chinese.

In addition, it is put forward that the semantic core of causative is the transference of causative force, which consists of three parts, i.

The close relation between SHI construction and BA construction is based on their shared semantic category ?causation.

In nature,both patterns are analytical causative constructions with different syntactic and semantic structures.

With help of typology, cognitive explanation and construction grammar combining the method of distribution and transform in structuralism, this thesis provides a detailed research on Modern Chinese Causative Construction.

As two different types of causative sentences,“shi”sentence and“bɑ”sentence have their own characteristics of force-dynamic schemas, which are the foundations to form different kinds of seman.

Cause is a covert element,and it has an independent position in syntactic structure.

The former should be comprehended as;during the course of kidnapping,the person being kidnapped is killed due to negligence as well as death without noninterference,including unavoidable suicide because of the kidnapping.