| Abstract (English Version) | 第6页 |
| Abstract (Chinese Version) | 第7-8页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第8-9页 |
| 1 Introduction: A Historical Survey | 第9-25页 |
| 1.1 A Survey on the Study of English Nominalization | 第9-18页 |
| 1.2 A Survey on the Study of Chinese Nominalization | 第18-24页 |
| 1.3 The Purpose of the Dissertation | 第24-25页 |
| 2 Contrastive Basis for English and Chinese Lexical Nominalization | 第25-29页 |
| 2.1 The Problem of 'Morphology' in Chinese | 第25-26页 |
| 2.2 English and Chinese Affixes | 第26-28页 |
| 2.3 Nominalizing Affixes in English and Chinese | 第28-29页 |
| 3 A Diachronic Study on Morphological Markers in English and Chinese Lexical Nominalizations | 第29-33页 |
| 3.1 The Origin and Evolution of English Nominalizing Affixes | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2 The Origin and Evolution of Chinese Nominalizing Affixes | 第30-32页 |
| 3.3 Counter-examples to the Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization | 第32-33页 |
| 4 Classification and Characteristics of Lexieal Nominalization | 第33-38页 |
| 4.1 Classification of English and Chinese Nominalizations at the Lexical Level | 第33-36页 |
| 4.1.1 Deverbal Nominalization | 第33-35页 |
| 4.1.2 De-adjectival Nominalization | 第35-36页 |
| 4.2 Features of English and Chinese Lexical Nominalizations after Comparison | 第36-38页 |
| 5 Cognitive Schematic Interpretation of Lexical Nominalization | 第38-42页 |
| 5.1 Theoretical Foundation | 第38-39页 |
| 5.2 The MOTION-REST Schema and Application to Lexical Nominalization | 第39-42页 |
| 6 Stylistic Function of English and Chinese Nominalizing Affixes | 第42-49页 |
| 6.1 Meaning and Classification of Styles | 第42-43页 |
| 6.2 Stylistic Function of English Nominalizing Affixes | 第43-49页 |
| 6.3 Stylistic Function of Some Chinese Nominalizing Affixes | 第49页 |
| 7 Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Appendix: A List of Frequently Used Nominalizing Affixes in English and Chinese | 第51-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-58页 |
