| Acknowledgements | 第1-11页 |
| Abstract | 第11-13页 |
| 摘要 | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-21页 |
| ·Some General Assumptions | 第15-19页 |
| ·The Purpose of the Study | 第19页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of the Literature | 第21-25页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·A Brief Survey of the Literature | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Classical Transformational Approach to Chinese A-not-A Questions | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Studies of Wh-questions in Comparative Syntax | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Development in the Study of Chinese Interrogatives | 第23-24页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter Three Interrogatives in English | 第25-38页 |
| ·Types of Interrogatives in English and their Defining Properties | 第25-32页 |
| ·Yes-No Questions and Head Movement | 第25-28页 |
| ·Wh-questions and Wh-movement | 第28-31页 |
| ·Simple Wh-questions | 第28-30页 |
| ·Multiple Wh-movement and Wh-island | 第30-31页 |
| ·Alternative Questions | 第31-32页 |
| ·Direct and Indirect Questions | 第32-38页 |
| ·Indirect Questions | 第32-36页 |
| ·Indirect Yes-no Questions | 第33-34页 |
| ·Indirect Wh-questions | 第34-36页 |
| ·Main-Verb Choices and Complementizer Types | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Four Interrogatives in Chinese | 第38-56页 |
| ·Types of Interrogatives in Chinese | 第38-50页 |
| ·Yes-no Questions | 第39-42页 |
| ·Wh-questions | 第42-45页 |
| ·Alternative Questions | 第45-47页 |
| ·A-not-A Questions | 第47-50页 |
| ·Direct and Indirect Questions | 第50-56页 |
| ·Indirect Questions | 第50-53页 |
| ·Indirect Yes-no Questions | 第51-52页 |
| ·Indirect Wh-questions and LF Movement | 第52-53页 |
| ·Main-Verb Choices and Complementizer Types | 第53-56页 |
| Chapter Five Subject-auxiliary Inversion as a Means of Interrogation | 第56-69页 |
| ·Application of Subject-auxiliary Inversion in English | 第56-62页 |
| ·Generalization of Subject-auxiliary Inversion | 第56-59页 |
| ·Wh-in-situ in English | 第59-62页 |
| ·Echo Questions | 第59-60页 |
| ·Subject Questions | 第60-62页 |
| ·Comparable Phenomena in Other Languages | 第62-69页 |
| ·Distribution of Inversion in French Questions | 第62-67页 |
| ·Inversion in French Yes-no Questions | 第63-64页 |
| ·Inversion in French Wh-questions and Other Options | 第64-66页 |
| ·Inversion in French Indirect Questions and Other Options | 第66-67页 |
| ·Cross-linguistic Comparison of Interrogative Inversion between English and French | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter Six Question Particles as a Means of Interrogation | 第69-82页 |
| ·Question Particles in Chinese | 第69-73页 |
| ·Conditions on Question Particles | 第73-74页 |
| ·Comparable Particles in Other Languages | 第74-82页 |
| ·Japanese Question Particle ka | 第75-79页 |
| ·Same Treatment of the Yes-no Question as that of Chinese | 第75-76页 |
| ·Different Treatment of Wh-questions | 第76-78页 |
| ·Instances of Different Treatment in Other Types of Questions: | 第78-79页 |
| ·Instances in Other Comparable Languages | 第79-82页 |
| ·Q-particle in Sinhala: de | 第80页 |
| ·Q-Particle in Persian: aya | 第80-81页 |
| ·Q-particle in Tamil: aa | 第81-82页 |
| Chapter Seven Reduplication as a Means of Interrogation | 第82-99页 |
| ·The Nature of Chinese A-not-A Questions | 第82-95页 |
| ·A Review of Previous Research | 第83-84页 |
| ·A Proposal for a Unified Derivation of A-not-A Questions | 第84-88页 |
| ·The Nature of Chinese A-not-A Questions | 第88-95页 |
| ·Comparable Phenomena in Other Languages | 第95-99页 |
| ·In Yi Language and Certain Chinese Dialects | 第95-97页 |
| ·In Hmong | 第97-99页 |
| Chapter Eight A Typological Generalization | 第99-116页 |
| ·Language Typology of Interrogatives | 第99-108页 |
| ·A Sharp Contrast between English and Chinese in Interrogatives | 第108-113页 |
| ·Typological Differences between English and Chinese | 第108-110页 |
| ·Explanation for the Typological Differences | 第110-112页 |
| ·Evidence for the Equivalence of the Three Interrogative Syntactic Devices | 第112-113页 |
| ·The Complementary Relationship Between Grammatical, Lexical and Phonological Means | 第113-116页 |
| Chapter Nine Conclusion | 第116-122页 |
| Bibliography | 第122-127页 |
