| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第7-8页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第8-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Motivation of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第14-15页 |
| ·Data and Methodology | 第15-16页 |
| ·Outline of the Dissertation | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-41页 |
| ·Some Relevant Theories | 第17-27页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis | 第17-20页 |
| ·Error Analysis Hypothesis | 第20-24页 |
| ·Transfer Theory | 第24-25页 |
| ·Interlanguage | 第25-27页 |
| ·An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 第27-34页 |
| ·Review of the Corpus | 第27-31页 |
| ·Review of Corpus Linguistics | 第31-34页 |
| ·An Introduction to the There-existential Clause | 第34-37页 |
| ·Definition of the There-existential Clause | 第34页 |
| ·Structures of the There-existential Clause | 第34-36页 |
| ·Discourse Function of the There-existential Clause | 第36-37页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the There-existential Clause | 第37-41页 |
| ·Traditional Grammatical and Structural Approach to the There-existential Clause | 第37-38页 |
| ·Transformational-generative Approach to the There-existential Clause | 第38页 |
| ·Systemic-functional Approach to the There-existential Clause | 第38-39页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach to the There-existential Clause | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第41-53页 |
| ·Research Approaches | 第41-45页 |
| ·The Corpus-based Approach | 第41-43页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第43-44页 |
| ·Computer-aided Error Analysis | 第44-45页 |
| ·Corpora Used in the Present Study | 第45-48页 |
| ·SWECCL | 第45-47页 |
| ·BASE | 第47-48页 |
| ·FROWN | 第48页 |
| ·Research Plan | 第48-53页 |
| ·Instruments Employed in the Study | 第49-50页 |
| ·Research Procedure | 第50-53页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第53-78页 |
| ·Characteristics in Chinese English Majors’Use of the There-existential | 第53-63页 |
| ·Overall Characteristics in the There-existential Clause | 第53-58页 |
| ·Characteristics in Nine Types of the There-existential Clause | 第58-63页 |
| ·Genre Characteristics in Chinese English Majors’Use of the There-existential Clause | 第63-68页 |
| ·Exploration of Differences in Frequency Between NNWEC and NNSEC | 第63-66页 |
| ·Exploration of Contractions in NNWEC and NNSEC | 第66-68页 |
| ·Computer-aided Error Analysis on Chinese English Majors’ Use of the There-existential Clause | 第68-78页 |
| ·Error Collection and Error Identification | 第68-69页 |
| ·Error Description, Error Explanation and Error Evaluation | 第69-78页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第78-82页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第78-80页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第80-81页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study and Suggestions for the Future Research | 第81-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-87页 |
