| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the Contrastive Linguistics | 第13-14页 |
| ·A Contrastive Study of English & Chinese Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第14-15页 |
| ·Importance of Contrastive Studies of This Topic | 第15-16页 |
| ·My Goals of the Content Arrangement | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter 1 An Overview | 第17-35页 |
| ·Adverb, Adverb Phrase and Adverbial | 第17-26页 |
| ·Origin | 第17页 |
| ·Definition | 第17-19页 |
| ·Morphology of Adverbs | 第19-21页 |
| ·Classification of Adverbials | 第21-26页 |
| ·Positions of Adverbials | 第26-29页 |
| ·Initial Position | 第26页 |
| ·Medial Position | 第26-27页 |
| ·End Position | 第27-28页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Positions of Adverbials in English and in Chinese | 第28页 |
| ·Reasons for Altering the Position of Adverbials | 第28-29页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第29-35页 |
| ·English Studies of This Topic | 第30-31页 |
| ·Chinese Studies of Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter 2 Realization Forms and Syntactic Constraints on Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第35-55页 |
| ·Realization Forms of Sentence-initial Adverbials in English | 第35-40页 |
| ·Adverbs and Adverb Phrases | 第35-36页 |
| ·Prepositional Phrases | 第36页 |
| ·Noun Phrases | 第36-37页 |
| ·Nonfinite Clauses | 第37-38页 |
| ·Finite Clauses | 第38-40页 |
| ·Verbless Clauses | 第40页 |
| ·Realization Forms of the Sentence-initial Adverbials in Chinese | 第40-45页 |
| ·Adverbs | 第41-42页 |
| ·Prepositional Phrases | 第42-43页 |
| ·Noun Phrases | 第43页 |
| ·Pronouns as Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第43-44页 |
| ·Adjectives as Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第44页 |
| ·Clauses | 第44-45页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Realization Forms | 第45-48页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Syntactic Constraints on Sentence-initial Adverbials between English and Chinese | 第48-55页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Influence of the Number of Syllables | 第48-49页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Influence from the Inner Structure of the Adverbial | 第49-51页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Constraint from Other Sentence Elements | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter 3 Semantic Roles and Semantic Constraints on Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第55-71页 |
| ·Semantic Roles of Adverbials | 第55-61页 |
| ·Space | 第56-57页 |
| ·Time | 第57页 |
| ·Process | 第57-58页 |
| ·Respect | 第58-59页 |
| ·Contingency | 第59-60页 |
| ·Modality | 第60页 |
| ·Degree | 第60-61页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Semantic Roles of Sentence-initial Adverbials between English and Chinese | 第61-67页 |
| ·Space | 第62-63页 |
| ·Time | 第63-64页 |
| ·Modality | 第64-65页 |
| ·Process | 第65页 |
| ·Respect | 第65-66页 |
| ·Contingency | 第66-67页 |
| ·Semantic Constraints | 第67-71页 |
| ·Constraint from the Semantic Relationship between the Adverbial and the Other Sentence Elements | 第67-69页 |
| ·The Key Constraint: The Semantic Relationship between the Adverbial and the Predicate Verb | 第69-71页 |
| Chapter 4 Pragmatic Features and Constraints on Sentence-initial Adverbials | 第71-83页 |
| ·Pragmatic Perspective | 第71-78页 |
| ·Modifying Function | 第72页 |
| ·Emphasizing Function | 第72-74页 |
| ·Textual Functions | 第74-78页 |
| ·A Comparison on Information Status of the Sentence-initial Adverbials between English & Chinese | 第78-83页 |
| ·The Principle of End-focus and End-weight | 第78-80页 |
| ·Theme-Rheme Theory | 第80-81页 |
| ·A Comparison on the Marked and Unmarked Condition of the Theme | 第81-83页 |
| Conclusion | 第83-87页 |
| Bibliography | 第87-91页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第91-93页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第93-95页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第95-96页 |
