| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘 要 | 第6-3页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第3-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Temporality in English and Chinese | 第13-23页 |
| ·Temporal reference | 第13-18页 |
| ·Tense | 第13-17页 |
| ·Lexical temporal expressions | 第17-18页 |
| ·Aspect | 第18-19页 |
| ·Aspect in English | 第18-19页 |
| ·Aspect in Chinese | 第19页 |
| ·Situation types in English and Chinese | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter 2 Functions of sentence final particle le | 第23-42页 |
| ·Semantic-syntactic functions of sentence final particle le | 第23-40页 |
| ·Inchoative, perfect and others | 第23-26页 |
| ·‘A change of state | 第26-32页 |
| ·A unified interpretation ---- ‘a new state of affairs | 第32-34页 |
| ·A new perspective: change of state with boundary as a key feature | 第34-40页 |
| ·Discourse function of sentence final particle le | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第42-45页 |
| ·Selection of data | 第42-43页 |
| ·Identification of sentence final particle le | 第43-44页 |
| ·Contrastive statistics of translation of sentence final particle le | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter 4 Results | 第45-51页 |
| ·Distribution of le in general | 第45页 |
| ·Distribution of sentence final particle le | 第45页 |
| ·Distribution of sentence final particle le in different constructions | 第45-46页 |
| ·Translation of sentence final particle le | 第46-51页 |
| Chapter 5 Explanation of the translation | 第51-69页 |
| ·Choice of tenses | 第51-54页 |
| ·Choice of aspect | 第54-66页 |
| ·Situation types and translation of le | 第55-64页 |
| ·‘Change of state’interpretation and translation of le | 第64-66页 |
| ·Discourse marker and translation of sentence final le | 第66-69页 |
| Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-73页 |
