| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Modality in the English Language | 第11-17页 |
| ·Different studies on the English modality | 第11-13页 |
| ·The scope of my study of modality in the English language | 第13-14页 |
| ·The syntactic study of English modality | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ Theories Dealing with the Analysis of Modality | 第17-26页 |
| ·Brief introduction on the theories of modality | 第17-22页 |
| ·Our theoretical viewpoint of modality | 第22-26页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Negation | 第26-36页 |
| ·The concept of the scope of negation | 第26-28页 |
| ·Clausal negation and local negation | 第28-36页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ The Relationship Between Modality and Negation | 第36-64页 |
| ·Introduction | 第36-38页 |
| ·The negative form of the grammatical token of English modality | 第38页 |
| ·Scope of negation influenced by different M (the modal auxiliary verb) in the grammatical token of English modality | 第38-60页 |
| ·Scope ambiguity resolved by the stress-changing method | 第60-61页 |
| ·Scope ambiguity removed by the forms '-n't' and 'not' | 第61-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-67页 |
