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Acknowledgements My heartfelt thanks first go to my supervisor Prof. Zhang Ming, for his inspiring encouragement, enlightening suggestions and constant help, without which the completion of this thesis would have been impossible. My sincere gratitude also goes to Prof. Zhu Yue, Prof. Hu Jian, Prof. Zhou Fangzhu, Prof. Zhu Xiaomei, Prof. Zhang Hongxia, Prof. Yang Ling, Prof. Hong Zengliu, Prof Hua Quankun, Prof. Xie Jinsha, and other teachers and scholars for their profound lectures and constant enlightenment during this three-year postgraduate study at Anhui University. I would like to express my appreciation to all my friends and classmates for their encouragement and help. Finally, I want to give my special thanks to my family. Without their support, understanding and encouragement, I would never have finished the thesis. i Abstract The use of language is closely related to human cognitive ability. The development of the latter influences that of the former. The use of English v-ed participle is no exception to this rule. In modern linguistics, a great many researches have been conducted by many scholars on this kind of participle, but most of them are from the perspective of traditional grammar. Both in traditional grammar books at home and abroad, English v-ed participle is treated as a special grammatical phenomenon, whose semantic-syntactic functions are only described statically without any explanation of the reason for its multifunctionality in discourses. Only a few scholars have analyzed it from a cognitive perspe