| 中文摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract | 第3-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-11页 |
| ·Research Background | 第7-8页 |
| ·Purpose and Significance | 第8-9页 |
| ·Outline | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One A Review of Previous Studies on English and Chinese Inversions | 第11-25页 |
| ·Studies on English Inversion | 第11-18页 |
| ·Grammatical Perspective | 第11-14页 |
| ·Rhetorical Perspective | 第14-16页 |
| ·Textual Perspective | 第16-17页 |
| ·Cognitive Perspective | 第17-18页 |
| ·Studies on Chinese Inversion | 第18-23页 |
| ·Grammatical Perspective | 第19-21页 |
| ·Textual Perspective | 第21-23页 |
| Summary | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two The Prominence View in Cognitive Linguistics | 第25-34页 |
| ·Four Pairs of Notions Concerning the Prominence View | 第25-32页 |
| ·Figure-Ground | 第25-27页 |
| ·Profile-Base | 第27页 |
| ·Trajector-Landmark | 第27-28页 |
| ·Prominence Target-Cognitive Reference Point | 第28-32页 |
| ·Objective Prominence and Subjective Prominence | 第32-33页 |
| Summary | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Three The Prominence Approach to English Inversion | 第34-50页 |
| ·Rationale | 第35-37页 |
| ·Researches on English Inversion | 第37-48页 |
| ·Time and Space as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第37-40页 |
| ·State as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第40-41页 |
| ·Logical Relations as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第41-47页 |
| ·Auxiliary Verbs as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第47页 |
| ·Interrogations as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第47-48页 |
| ·Subject as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第48页 |
| Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four The Prominence Approach to Chinese Inversion | 第50-62页 |
| ·Rationale | 第50-53页 |
| ·Researches on Spoken Chinese Inversion | 第53-57页 |
| ·Subject as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第53-55页 |
| ·Salutation as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第55页 |
| ·Subject and Predicate as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第55-57页 |
| ·Modifier as the Cognitive Reference Point | 第57页 |
| ·Researches on Written Chinese Inversion | 第57-60页 |
| ·Modifier as the Prominence Target | 第58-60页 |
| ·Other Situations | 第60页 |
| Summary | 第60-62页 |
| Chapter Five Comparisons between English and Chinese Inversions | 第62-71页 |
| ·Similarities | 第62-63页 |
| ·Differences | 第63-70页 |
| ·Using Circumstances | 第63-64页 |
| ·Using Rules | 第64-65页 |
| ·Criteria of Definition and Classification | 第65页 |
| ·Ways of Emphasizing | 第65-67页 |
| ·Underlying Cause of the Differences | 第67-70页 |
| Summary | 第70-71页 |
| Conclusion | 第71-73页 |
| References | 第73-76页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第76-77页 |
