| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| 0.1 Research Background | 第12-14页 |
| 0.2 Research Significance | 第14-15页 |
| 0.3 Research Method--corpus | 第15-16页 |
| 0.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第18-38页 |
| 1.1 Definitions of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第18-24页 |
| 1.1.1 Defintions of English Cleft Sentence | 第18-22页 |
| 1.1.2 Definitions of Chinese Cleft Sentence | 第22-24页 |
| 1.2 Previous Studies on English Cleft Sentences | 第24-32页 |
| 1.2.1 Studies from Traditional School | 第24-26页 |
| 1.2.2 Studies from Transformational-generative Grammar | 第26-28页 |
| 1.2.3 Studies from Systemic-function Grammar | 第28-30页 |
| 1.2.4 Studies from Cognitive Linguistics | 第30-32页 |
| 1.3 Previous Studies on Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第32-37页 |
| 1.3.1 Studies on the Status of shi | 第32-34页 |
| 1.3.2 Studies on the Status of de | 第34-37页 |
| 1.4 Summaary | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundation | 第38-54页 |
| 2.1 Trypological Theory | 第38-47页 |
| 2.1.1 Definitions of Typology | 第38-40页 |
| 2.1.2 The Development of Typology | 第40-42页 |
| 2.1.3 Implicational Universals and Grammtical Hierarchies | 第42-44页 |
| 2.1.4 Typological Markedness | 第44-47页 |
| 2.2 Figure/Ground Theory | 第47-49页 |
| 2.3 Grammaticalization | 第49-52页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 3 Syntactic and Semantic Classifications of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第54-76页 |
| 3.1 Syntactic Classifications of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第54-71页 |
| 3.1.1 Syntactic Classifications of English Cleft Sentences | 第54-64页 |
| 3.1.2 Syntactic Classifications of Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第64-71页 |
| 3.2 Semantic Classifications of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第71-75页 |
| 3.2.1 Semantic Classifications of English Cleft Sentences | 第71-73页 |
| 3.2.2 Semantic Classifications of Chinese Cletf Sentences | 第73-75页 |
| 3.3 Summary | 第75-76页 |
| Chapter 4 Implicational Universals and Grammatical Hierarehies of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第76-126页 |
| 4.1 Implicational Universals of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第76-89页 |
| 4.1.1 Implicational Universals of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第76-83页 |
| 4.1.2 Grammaticalization Explanation of Cleft Sentences | 第83-89页 |
| 4.2 Markedness Of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第89-97页 |
| 4.2.1 Markedness of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第89-96页 |
| 4.2.2 Markedness of Cleft Sentences in Other Languages | 第96-97页 |
| 4.3 Grammatical Hierarchies of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第97-123页 |
| 4.3.1 Grammatical Hierarchies of English and Chinese Cletf Sentences | 第98-107页 |
| 4.3.2 Focus Definiteness Grammatical Hierarchies of English and Chinese Cleft Sentences | 第107-115页 |
| 4.3.3 Figure/Ground Theory Explanation on Grammatical Hierarchies | 第115-123页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第123-126页 |
| Conclusions | 第126-130页 |
| Bibliography | 第130-138页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第138-140页 |
