| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| I. Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| II. Psychological reality of grammars | 第16-35页 |
| ·Chomsky’s argument for the psychological reality of grammars | 第16-17页 |
| ·Bresnan and Kaplan’s argument for the psychological reality of grammars | 第17-19页 |
| ·Internally represented linguistic grammars | 第19-23页 |
| ·Transparency as the measure of psychological reality | 第23-27页 |
| ·Grammars as psychological hypotheses | 第27-32页 |
| ·Psychological reality of linguistic constructs | 第32-35页 |
| III. Syntactic representation in phrase-structure grammar | 第35-47页 |
| ·Phrase-structure representation | 第35-38页 |
| ·Evidence of testing the phrase structure | 第38-47页 |
| ·Psycholinguistic test | 第40-41页 |
| ·Coordination | 第41-43页 |
| ·Sentence fragment test | 第43-44页 |
| ·Proforms test | 第44-45页 |
| ·Ellipsis | 第45-47页 |
| IV. Syntactic representation in dependency grammar | 第47-72页 |
| ·Dependency representation | 第48-56页 |
| ·Defining dependency | 第48-52页 |
| ·Dependency in the MTT and WG | 第52-56页 |
| ·Arguments for syntactic dependency | 第56-68页 |
| ·The nature of syntactic dependency relations | 第56-59页 |
| ·The nature of syntactic dependency structure | 第59-61页 |
| ·Some fallacies concerning syntactic dependencies | 第61-65页 |
| ·Advantages of syntactic dependencies | 第65-68页 |
| ·Evidence of testing dependency structure | 第68-72页 |
| V. Psychological reality of phrase-structure grammar and dependency grammar | 第72-97页 |
| ·Similarities and differences between dependency structure & phrase structure | 第72-76页 |
| ·Constituency vs. dependency | 第73-74页 |
| ·Categorization | 第74页 |
| ·Terminals and non-terminals | 第74-75页 |
| ·Linear order of nodes | 第75-76页 |
| ·Labeling syntactic roles | 第76页 |
| ·Reasons for the dominance of PS-structure | 第76-78页 |
| ·English as mother tongue of the founding fathers of modern syntax | 第76-77页 |
| ·Exaggerated formalistic drive | 第77页 |
| ·Available mathematical apparatus | 第77-78页 |
| ·Isolationist attitude toward semantics | 第78页 |
| ·Some dubious advantages and drawbacks of phrase structure | 第78-84页 |
| ·Evidences for psychological reality of dependency grammar | 第84-97页 |
| ·Dependency distance | 第86-88页 |
| ·Dependency direction | 第88-89页 |
| ·Dependency classification | 第89-91页 |
| ·Dependency prototypes | 第91-93页 |
| ·Dependency parsing | 第93-94页 |
| ·Dependency lexicalization | 第94-95页 |
| ·Dependency learning | 第95-97页 |
| VI. Conclusion | 第97-101页 |
| Bibliography | 第101-112页 |
