| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Preface | 第9-14页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第14-16页 |
| Abstract in English | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter One Something About 'Notional Be' and 'Not' | 第18-27页 |
| ·A diachronic review of 'be' | 第18-19页 |
| ·'Notional be' in comparison with 'functional be' | 第19-21页 |
| ·'Not' and sentential negation | 第21-22页 |
| ·A diachronic review of 'not' | 第22-23页 |
| ·'Not' as the head of NEGP in Modern English | 第23-27页 |
| Chapter Two Dilemma of the Head Movement Constraint (HMC) | 第27-36页 |
| ·X'theory | 第27-28页 |
| ·Move Alpha | 第28-29页 |
| ·Head Movement | 第29-33页 |
| ·V to I Movement | 第30-32页 |
| ·I to C Movement | 第32-33页 |
| ·Dilemma of Head Movement Constraint | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Three More About 'Notional Be' | 第36-46页 |
| ·Inflectional forms | 第36-38页 |
| ·Weak meaning | 第38-40页 |
| ·Fuzziness of boundary between Lexical Verb and Functional Verb | 第40-44页 |
| ·Lack of VP Ellipsis | 第44-45页 |
| ·Lack of Do-support | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter Four More About 'Not' | 第46-57页 |
| ·[+ADV] feature of'not' | 第46-47页 |
| ·'Not' in 'notional be+not' structure | 第47-52页 |
| ·A comparison between 'not' and 'n't' in 'notional be+not' structure | 第52-57页 |
| Chapter Five Possibility of the Movement of 'Be' | 第57-62页 |
| 5 1 Strength of 'notional be' | 第57-59页 |
| ·[+AUX] feature of 'notional be' | 第59-60页 |
| ·'Lack of Do-support' feature of 'notional be' | 第60-61页 |
| ·'Not' as an adverb in 'notional be+not' structure | 第61-62页 |
| Chapter Six Necessity of the Movement of 'Be' | 第62-69页 |
| ·Requirement of explanatory adequacy | 第62-63页 |
| ·Requirement of convergence at LF | 第63-68页 |
| ·Impossibility of Do-support as a last resort | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter Seven Mechanics of the Movement of 'Be' | 第69-75页 |
| ·Process of the movement | 第69-73页 |
| ·'Copular be' moving across 'not' | 第69-70页 |
| ·'Copular be' moving across 'n't' | 第70-71页 |
| ·'Notional be' moving across 'not' in existential sentence | 第71-72页 |
| ·'Notional be' moving across 'n't' in existential sentence | 第72-73页 |
| ·Evidence of the movement | 第73-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-77页 |
| References | 第77-79页 |
