| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-9页 |
| Abbreviations | 第9-10页 |
| Symbols | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Preliminaries | 第11-12页 |
| ·Purpose and Research Questions of the Study | 第12页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-25页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Clefts | 第14-20页 |
| ·Traditional Analyses | 第15-18页 |
| ·Transformational Analyses | 第18-20页 |
| ·Studies from Other Perspectives | 第20页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Exhaustiveness Effects of Clefts | 第20-24页 |
| ·Conventional Implicature View | 第21-22页 |
| ·Truth-functional Import View | 第22页 |
| ·Generalized Conversational Implicature View | 第22-23页 |
| ·Presupposition View | 第23-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Semantic Interpretation of Cleft Constructions | 第25-41页 |
| ·Constraints on the Focusing Part of Cleft Constructions | 第25-32页 |
| ·Basic Components of Cleft Constructions | 第25-27页 |
| ·Constraints on the Focalized Constituents | 第27-32页 |
| ·Relevant Focus Interpretation Theories | 第32-35页 |
| ·Focus Movement Theory | 第32-33页 |
| ·Structured Meanings Semantics | 第33-34页 |
| ·Alternative Semantic Theory | 第34-35页 |
| ·Logical Representations of English Cleft Constructions | 第35-39页 |
| ·It-clefts with Focalized NP | 第35-36页 |
| ·It-clefts with Focalized PP | 第36-37页 |
| ·It-clefts with Focalized AdvP | 第37-38页 |
| ·It-clefts with Focalized Adverbial Clause | 第38-39页 |
| ·Semantic Rules of Focus in It-clefts | 第39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter 4 Exhaustiveness Effect of Cleft Construction as an Identificational Focus | 第41-61页 |
| ·Exhaustiveness Effect of Cleft Constructions | 第41-51页 |
| ·Definition of Exhaustiveness Effect | 第41-42页 |
| ·Analysis of Different Views on the Exhaustiveness Effect of Cleft Constructions | 第42-46页 |
| ·Towards a solution | 第46-51页 |
| ·Identificational Focus Constructions | 第51-56页 |
| ·Introduction and Classification of Focus | 第51-52页 |
| ·Identificational Focus | 第52-56页 |
| ·Comparison between Cleft Construction and Only-sentence | 第56-60页 |
| ·Differences in the Nature of Exhaustiveness Effect | 第56-58页 |
| ·Differences in Focus Projection | 第58-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-61页 |
| Conclusion | 第61-63页 |
| References | 第63-67页 |
| Appendix B 详细中文摘要 | 第67-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72页 |
