| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract(English Version) | 第9-10页 |
| Abstract(Chinese Version) | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·The Background of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Scope of the Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Purpose of the Research | 第13页 |
| ·The General Organization of the Dissertation | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-34页 |
| ·Noam Chomsky | 第15-16页 |
| ·Chomsky's Achievement and Influence | 第15-16页 |
| ·Development of Chomsky's Revolution | 第16页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to X-bar Theory | 第16-19页 |
| ·X-bar Theory | 第16-17页 |
| ·Core Concepts | 第17-18页 |
| ·How the Rules Combine | 第18-19页 |
| ·Basic X-bar Properties | 第19页 |
| ·X-bar Morphology:Some Proposals | 第19-31页 |
| ·Selkirk's Proposal | 第20-24页 |
| ·Sadock's Proposal | 第24-25页 |
| ·Tang Ting-chi's Proposal | 第25-27页 |
| ·Packard's Proposal | 第27-29页 |
| ·Other Proposals | 第29-31页 |
| ·Some Comments on the Proposals Mentioned above | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter Three Comparative Basis for Chinese and English Compound Nouns | 第34-39页 |
| ·The Argument over the Problem of Morphology in Chinese | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Relationship between Morphemes and Words | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Modification of the Definition of English Compounds | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Four The Comparison of Chinese and English Compound Noun | 第39-55页 |
| ·Identification of Morphemes | 第39-40页 |
| ·Free Morphemes and Bound Morphemes | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Analysis | 第41-49页 |
| ·X-bar Analysis of Chinese Compound Nouns | 第42-47页 |
| ·X-bar Analysis of English Compound Nouns | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Comparison | 第49-55页 |
| ·The Statistics of Chinese and English Noun Compounds | 第49页 |
| ·The Statistics of Syntactic Relationships | 第49-50页 |
| ·The Statistics of Word Patterns | 第50页 |
| ·The Comparison of X-bar Word Forms | 第50-55页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第55-59页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第55-56页 |
| ·Implications | 第56-58页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies | 第58-59页 |
| Notes | 第59-60页 |
| References | 第60-63页 |
