| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-8页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第8-13页 |
| List of Figures | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-20页 |
| ·Preliminary Remarks | 第14-15页 |
| ·Origin of cleft sentence | 第15-16页 |
| ·Definition of cleft sentence | 第16-17页 |
| ·Objectives of the study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Methods of this study | 第18页 |
| ·Organization of this thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第20-35页 |
| ·Introductory remarks | 第20-21页 |
| ·The syntactic analysis | 第21-33页 |
| ·The traditional analysis | 第21-26页 |
| ·Fowler and Fowler (1906) | 第21-22页 |
| ·Poutsma (1916/1928) | 第22页 |
| ·Otto Jespersen (1928, 1937) | 第22-24页 |
| ·Quirk, R. et al. (1985) | 第24-25页 |
| ·Huddleston, R. (1984) | 第25-26页 |
| ·The transformational analysis | 第26-33页 |
| ·Lees (1963) and Fichtner (1993) | 第26-28页 |
| ·Akmajian (1970) | 第28-30页 |
| ·Gundel (1977) | 第30-32页 |
| ·Delahunty (1984) and Knowlers (1986) | 第32-33页 |
| ·Studies from other perspectives | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第35-47页 |
| ·Introductory remarks | 第35页 |
| ·The necessity of the present study | 第35-36页 |
| ·The prototype-model theory | 第36-42页 |
| ·The principle of mono-prototype-poly-model | 第39-40页 |
| ·The principle of conjugation and intergrowth | 第40-42页 |
| ·Some concerned fundamental concepts | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Canonical Event Model ---- Stage Model | 第42-43页 |
| ·Viewpoint | 第43页 |
| ·“Boundedness”and “unboundedness” | 第43-44页 |
| ·Figure and ground | 第44-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Four Generative Mechanism of English Cleft Sentence | 第47-65页 |
| ·Introductory remarks | 第47-48页 |
| ·The subjective initiative of human beings | 第48-52页 |
| ·The generative mechanism of cleft sentence | 第52-63页 |
| ·Concrete Movable entities emphasized cleft sentences and their generative mechanism | 第53-57页 |
| ·Concrete Unmovable entities emphasized cleft sentences and their generative mechanism | 第57-58页 |
| ·Place emphasized cleft sentences and their generative mechanism | 第58-60页 |
| ·Abstract entity emphasized cleft sentences and their generative mechanism | 第60-62页 |
| ·Event emphasized cleft sentences and their generative mechanism | 第62-63页 |
| ·The relationship between prototype sentence and the corresponding generated model cleft sentences and that between the corresponding generated model cleft sentences | 第63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| ·The theoretical significance of this thesis | 第66页 |
| ·The practical significance of this thesis | 第66-67页 |
| ·Suggested areas for further study | 第67-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-71页 |
