| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-21页 |
| ·Study Abroad | 第14-18页 |
| ·An overview of word order | 第16-18页 |
| ·Definition of word order | 第16-17页 |
| ·Functions of word order | 第17-18页 |
| ·Comparisons between Chinese and English word order | 第18页 |
| ·Domestic Study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Summary | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter 3 A Macroscopic Comparative Study of Word Order in Chinese and English | 第21-37页 |
| ·The Similarities of Word Order in Chinese and English | 第21-26页 |
| ·The basic word order | 第21-22页 |
| ·The basic word order in English | 第21-22页 |
| ·The direct word order in Chinese | 第22页 |
| ·Rigidity and Flexibility | 第22-26页 |
| ·Rigidity in English Word Order | 第22-24页 |
| ·Rigidity in Chinese Word Order | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Macroscopic Differences of Word Order between Chinese and English | 第26-37页 |
| ·Hypotactic vs. Paratactic | 第26-29页 |
| ·Synthetic vs. Analytic | 第29-30页 |
| ·Convergent vs. Divergent | 第30-33页 |
| ·Passive vs. Active | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter 4 A Microscopic Comparative Study of Word Order in Chinese and English | 第37-60页 |
| ·The implement of Iconicity for analyzing word order in Chinese and English | 第37-41页 |
| ·Word Order Iconicity at the Phrase Level | 第37-40页 |
| ·The Expression of Distance Iconicity in Modifiers | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Expression of Markedness Iconicity in Linguistic Freezes | 第38-40页 |
| ·Sequence Iconicity of Word Order at the Sentential Level | 第40-41页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity of Word Order at the Sentential Level | 第41页 |
| ·The Microscopic Differences of Word Order between Chinese and English | 第41-60页 |
| ·Subject vs. Topic | 第42-51页 |
| ·Chinese as a Topic-Prominent Language | 第44-46页 |
| ·English as a Subject-Prominent Language | 第46-47页 |
| ·Different Topic Statement in Chinese and English | 第47-49页 |
| ·Animate Subject vs. Inanimate subject in Chinese and English | 第49-51页 |
| ·Difference in the position of the Object | 第51-53页 |
| ·the position of object in Chinese | 第51-52页 |
| ·The position of object in English | 第52-53页 |
| ·Difference in the position of the Attributive | 第53-55页 |
| ·Difference in the position of the Adverbial | 第55-60页 |
| Chapter 5 Special Cases of Word Order | 第60-77页 |
| ·Subjectless sentences | 第60-66页 |
| ·The definition of subjectless sentences | 第60-61页 |
| ·Subjectless sentences in Chinese | 第61-64页 |
| ·The reasons for the generation of subjectless sentences in Chinese | 第61-63页 |
| ·The skills for subject selection | 第63-64页 |
| ·Subjectless sentences in English | 第64-66页 |
| ·Inverted sentences | 第66-72页 |
| ·The definition of Inversion | 第66-67页 |
| ·Inversion in Chinese | 第67-68页 |
| ·Subject-predicate inversion | 第67-68页 |
| ·Inversions with the adverbials or attributives postponed | 第68页 |
| ·Inversion in English | 第68-72页 |
| ·Grammatical inversion | 第69-70页 |
| ·Emphatic inversion | 第70-72页 |
| ·Cleft Sentences | 第72-77页 |
| ·The definition of Cleft Sentences and its type | 第72-73页 |
| ·Cleft Sentences in Chinese | 第73-74页 |
| ·Cleft Sentences in English | 第74-77页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| References | 第79-81页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第81-82页 |
| Resume | 第82页 |
