| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Preliminaries | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Questions and Proposals | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-28页 |
| ·Syntactic Study of Bare Nominals, Binomials and Bare Binomials | 第16-20页 |
| ·Bare Arguments across Languages | 第16-18页 |
| ·Study of Binomials below DP | 第18-19页 |
| ·Syntactic Formation of Bare Binomials | 第19-20页 |
| ·Semantics of Bare Nominals, Binomials and Bare Binomials | 第20-26页 |
| ·Reference of Bare Nominals | 第20-23页 |
| ·Semantic Readings of Binomials | 第23-24页 |
| ·Semantic Properties of Bare Binomials | 第24-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Syntax of Bare Nominals, Binomials and Bare Binomials | 第28-41页 |
| ·Bare Nominals, Binomials and Bare Binomials as Arguments | 第28-37页 |
| ·Bare Nominal Arguments of English and Chinese | 第28-33页 |
| ·Binomials as Arguments | 第33-36页 |
| ·Bare Binomials as Arguments | 第36-37页 |
| ·Bare Binomials as Complex Words like Compounds | 第37-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter 4 Semantics of Bare Nominals, Binomials and Bare Binomials | 第41-63页 |
| ·Semantic Properties of Bare Nominals | 第41-46页 |
| ·Similarities between English and Mandarin BNPs | 第42-43页 |
| ·Differences between English and Mandarin BNPs | 第43-44页 |
| ·A Unified Analysis of English and Mandarin BNPs | 第44-46页 |
| ·Semantic Readings of Binomials | 第46-47页 |
| ·Split and Joint Readings of Singular Binomials | 第46-47页 |
| ·Split Reading of Plural Binomials | 第47页 |
| ·Semantics of Bare Binomials | 第47-57页 |
| ·Types and Properties of Bare Binomials | 第47-52页 |
| ·Semantic Relations between A and B | 第52-53页 |
| ·Meaning Relations between the Sum of A and B and the Whole Bare Binomial | 第53-55页 |
| ·Referential Properties of Bare Binomials | 第55-57页 |
| ·Irreversibility of Bare Binomials | 第57-62页 |
| ·Phonological Constraints on Irreversible Bare Binomials | 第57-59页 |
| ·Semantic Constraints on Irreversible Bare Binomials | 第59-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| References | 第65-69页 |
| Appendix B 详细中文摘要 | 第69-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72页 |
