| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-28页 |
| ·A Brief Overview of Demonstratives | 第14-20页 |
| ·The Definition of Demonstratives | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Classification of Demonstratives | 第15-17页 |
| ·Some Issues Concerning Demonstratives | 第17-18页 |
| ·Semantic Features of Demonstratives | 第18-19页 |
| ·Pragmatic Functions of Demonstratives | 第19-20页 |
| ·Previous Studies of the English this/that | 第20-23页 |
| ·Syntactic Distributions | 第20-21页 |
| ·Pragmatic Functions | 第21-22页 |
| ·Grammaticalizaion | 第22-23页 |
| ·Previous Studies of the Chinese zhelna | 第23-26页 |
| ·Syntactic Distributions | 第23-24页 |
| ·Semantic and Pragmatic Features | 第24-26页 |
| ·Grammaticalization | 第26页 |
| ·Problems | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Background | 第28-33页 |
| ·Theory of Grammaticalization | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Definition of Grammaticalization | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Development of Grammaticalization Theory | 第29-30页 |
| ·Conceptual Metaphor Theory | 第30-31页 |
| ·Conceptual Metonymy Theory | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 4 A Synchronic Study of Grammaticalization of this/that and zhe/na | 第33-59页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of this/that and zhe/na from a Pragmatic Perspective | 第34-45页 |
| ·Pragmatic Functions of this/that and zhe/na | 第34-44页 |
| ·Basic Uses | 第35-38页 |
| ·Extended Uses | 第38-44页 |
| ·A Grammaticalization Channel from a Pragmatic Perspective | 第44-45页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of this/that and zhelna from a Syntactic Perspective | 第45-57页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of Pronominal Demonstratives | 第45-50页 |
| ·Relative Clause Marker in English | 第46-47页 |
| ·Sentence Connective in English and Chinese | 第47-48页 |
| ·Complementizer in English | 第48-49页 |
| ·Interim Summary | 第49-50页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of Adnominal Demonstratives | 第50-56页 |
| ·Uses as Definite Article in English and Chinese | 第50-52页 |
| ·Relative Clause Marker in Chinese | 第52-53页 |
| ·Possessive Uses in Chinese | 第53-55页 |
| ·Interim Summary | 第55-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-57页 |
| ·Further Evidence from Children's Acquisition of Demonstratives | 第57-58页 |
| ·A Grammaticalization Channel for the Entity-referring Demonstratives | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter 5 Cognitive Mechanisms for Grammaticalization of Demonstratives | 第59-68页 |
| ·From Spatial Concepts to Temporal Concepts | 第59-62页 |
| ·From Exophoric Uses to Discourse Deictic Uses | 第62-64页 |
| ·From Physical Spaces to Mental Spaces | 第64-66页 |
| ·Metonymic Extension | 第66-68页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第68-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-74页 |
| Appendix | 第74-79页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第79-80页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第80-81页 |
| 附表 | 第81页 |
