| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Abbreviations | 第8-9页 |
| List of Tables & Figures & Samples | 第9-12页 |
| Contents | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Background | 第14-15页 |
| ·Significance of the Research and Research Objectives | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research Method | 第16-17页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-41页 |
| ·Review of SLPRC in the 1990s | 第18-19页 |
| ·Linguistic Characteristics of Legal English | 第19-24页 |
| ·Lexical Characteristics of Legal English | 第20-21页 |
| ·Syntactic Characteristics of Legal English | 第21-23页 |
| ·Semantic Features of Legal English | 第23-24页 |
| ·Equivalence Theory | 第24-30页 |
| ·Peter Newmark's Communicative Translation | 第25-26页 |
| ·Nida's Functional Equivalence | 第26-28页 |
| ·Use of Functional Equivalence in Legal Translation | 第28-30页 |
| ·Non-finite Verbs | 第30-41页 |
| ·Review of Non-finite Verb Researches at Home and Abroad | 第30-32页 |
| ·Classification of Non-finite Verb Forms | 第32-33页 |
| ·Grammatical Meanings and Syntactic Functions of Non-finite Verbs | 第33-40页 |
| Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第41-49页 |
| ·Introduction of Corpus | 第41-42页 |
| ·Description of Corpus used in the Research | 第42-43页 |
| ·Tools for Processing Data | 第43-45页 |
| ·Antconc | 第43-45页 |
| ·CLAWS POS Tagger for English | 第45页 |
| ·Data Collection and Procedures | 第45-47页 |
| ·Approach of Data Analysis | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Analysis | 第49-92页 |
| ·Overall Frequency of Non-finite Verbs | 第49-51页 |
| ·Infinitives | 第51-69页 |
| ·Overall Distribution of All the Infinitives | 第51-52页 |
| ·Bare-Infinitives | 第52-69页 |
| ·Past Participles | 第69-77页 |
| ·Past Participles in the Patterns "be done" | 第70-73页 |
| ·Past Participles as Attributes | 第73-75页 |
| ·Past Participles as Adverbials | 第75-77页 |
| ·Gerunds | 第77-84页 |
| ·IO/IF/II~*ing(Gerunds as Objects) | 第79-82页 |
| ·~*ing_NN1~*_NN(Gerunds as Attributes) | 第82-83页 |
| Summary | 第83-84页 |
| ·Present Participles | 第84-92页 |
| ·Present Participles as Attributes | 第84-88页 |
| ·Present Participles as Adverbials | 第88-91页 |
| ·Others | 第91-92页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第92-96页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第92-94页 |
| ·Implications from the Thesis | 第94页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第94-96页 |
| References | 第96-99页 |
| Appendix 1 UCREL CLAWS7 Tagset | 第99-102页 |
| Appendix 2 Social Laws and Their Text Length(1990s) | 第102-103页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第103页 |
