| 英文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| Abbreviations | 第5-8页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第8-10页 |
| 1．1 Purpose and Focus of the Study | 第8页 |
| 1．2 Research Methods and Related Corpora | 第8-9页 |
| 1．3 Layout of the Thesis | 第9-10页 |
| CHAPTER 2 MODALITY AND MOOD | 第10-17页 |
| 2．1 Modality | 第10-12页 |
| 2．1．1 The Concept of Modality | 第10-11页 |
| 2．1．2 The Types of Modality | 第11-12页 |
| 2．2 Mood | 第12-17页 |
| 2．2．1 The Definition of Mood | 第12-13页 |
| 2．2．2 The Distinction between Modality and Mood | 第13页 |
| 2．2．3 The Mood System of English | 第13-14页 |
| 2．2．4 The Classification of Mood | 第14-16页 |
| 2．2．5 The Function of Mood | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THE ENGLISH SUBJUNCTIVE | 第17-45页 |
| 3．1 The Definition of the English Subjunctive | 第17-18页 |
| 3．2 The English Subjunctive in Comparison with Some Languages | 第18-20页 |
| 3．2．1 The English Subjunctive versus the French Subjunctive | 第18-19页 |
| 3．2．2 The English Subjunctive versus the Latin Subjunctive | 第19页 |
| 3．2．3 The English Subjunctive versus the Classical Greek Subjunctive | 第19-20页 |
| 3．3 The Classification of the Subjunctive | 第20-21页 |
| 3．4 Non-distinctiveness of the Subjunctive in Present-day English | 第21-23页 |
| 3．5 The Identification of the Subjunctive | 第23-27页 |
| 3．6 Uses of the Subjunctive | 第27-45页 |
| 3．6．1 The Subjunctive in Independent Clauses | 第27-29页 |
| 3．6．2 The Subjunctive in Dependent Clauses | 第29-45页 |
| CHAPTER 4 THE MANDATIVE SUBJUNCTIVE | 第45-70页 |
| 4．1 Brief Introduction to the Mandative Subjunctive | 第45-46页 |
| 4．2 The Morphological Subjunctive | 第46-62页 |
| 4．2．1 The Mandative Words | 第46-57页 |
| 4．2．2 The Usage Range of the Morphological Subjunctive | 第57-59页 |
| 4．2．3 Syntactic Features of the Morphological Subjunctive | 第59-62页 |
| 4．3 The Periphrastic Subjunctive | 第62-66页 |
| 4．3．1 The Modals of the Periphrastic Subjunctive | 第62-66页 |
| 4．3．2 The Semantic Features of the Periphrastic Subjunctive | 第66页 |
| 4．4 The Mandative Subjunctive in Comparison with the Indicative | 第66-68页 |
| 4．5 The Decline of the Mandative Subjunctive | 第68-70页 |
| CHAPTER 5 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MANDATIVE SUBJUNCTIVE IN MTE | 第70-93页 |
| 5．1 Statistical Techniques | 第70页 |
| 5．2 The Distribution of the Subjunctive Occurrences and the Non-subjunctive Occurrences | 第70-79页 |
| 5．3 Statistical Analysis of the Mandative Subjunctive in MTE and the Other Corpora | 第79-93页 |
| 5．3．1 General Distribution of the Mandative Subjunctive in Each Corpus | 第79-83页 |
| 5．3．2 Statistical Analysis of the Mandative Subjunctive Based on Mandative Words | 第83-89页 |
| 5．3．3 Statistical and Textual Analysis of the Distribution of the Morphological Subjunctive and the Periphrastic Subjunctive | 第89-93页 |
| CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS | 第93-96页 |
| References | 第96-98页 |
| Appendix | 第98-100页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第100页 |
