| 摘要 | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Index to Tables | 第11-12页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| ·The Motivating problems | 第13-16页 |
| ·The empirical motivations | 第13-15页 |
| ·The theoretical motivations | 第15-16页 |
| ·Just as a starting point | 第16页 |
| ·The roadmap of the thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 shi and Focus: The Preliminaries | 第18-41页 |
| ·shi and focus: some preliminaries | 第18-30页 |
| ·The begins | 第18-22页 |
| ·Focus: how and what | 第22-25页 |
| ·shi, Alternative Semantics and Focus Sensitivity | 第25-27页 |
| ·shi in clefts as a contrastive focus marker | 第27-30页 |
| ·shi and focus: further explorations | 第30-40页 |
| ·Association with focus | 第30-36页 |
| ·How does shi associate with focus | 第36-40页 |
| ·shi and Focus: the observational conclusion | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter 3 shi and Focus: The Syntactic Approach | 第41-61页 |
| ·shi as a higher predicate | 第41-46页 |
| ·The symmetries and asymmetries between pseudo-clefts and clefts | 第41-44页 |
| ·The derivation of the clefts | 第44-46页 |
| ·Teng: shi as a focus marker | 第46-49页 |
| ·Huang: Operator Movement and focalization | 第49-55页 |
| ·The syntactic status of shi | 第49-52页 |
| ·Focalization is an Operator Movement | 第52-55页 |
| ·QR,ECP,or Association with Focus? | 第55-60页 |
| ·Concluding remarks: when syntax meets semantics | 第60-61页 |
| Chapter 4 shi-Construction, Focus Structure and Quantification Types | 第61-78页 |
| ·Starting from Chomsky (1972) | 第61-64页 |
| ·Jackendoff : presupposition-focus construction | 第64-67页 |
| ·A-Quantification, D-Quantification and Tripartite Structure | 第67-73页 |
| ·Quantification, shi and focus | 第73-77页 |
| ·Concluding remarks | 第77-78页 |
| Chapter 5 Logical Judgment, Sentence Form and Focus | 第78-89页 |
| ·Logical judgment and sentence form | 第78-83页 |
| ·Logical judgment and focus structure | 第83-85页 |
| ·QOE, QOI and shi-construction | 第85-88页 |
| ·Not a conclusion | 第88-89页 |
| Conclusion | 第89-98页 |
| 1 The "Local" Conclusion | 第89-91页 |
| 2 Some Implications | 第91-98页 |
| References | 第98-102页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第102-104页 |
| Appendix A: 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第104-105页 |
| Appendix B: 详细中文摘要 | 第105-118页 |
