| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第9-10页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| ·Research Background | 第14-15页 |
| ·Significance and Purpose of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-34页 |
| ·Introduction to English and Mandarin Existential Construction | 第17-26页 |
| ·English Existential Construction | 第17-22页 |
| ·Definition and Classification of English EC | 第17-19页 |
| ·Uniqueness of Existential There | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Verbs After There | 第20页 |
| ·Characters of Postverbal NP | 第20-22页 |
| ·Mandarin Existential Construction | 第22-23页 |
| ·Classification and Charcteristics of Mandarin EC | 第22-23页 |
| ·Syntax of Mandarin Existential Construction | 第23页 |
| ·Distinction Between Some Terms | 第23-26页 |
| ·Deictic there VS Existential there | 第23-24页 |
| ·Presentational Relative Clause VS Existential Relative Clause | 第24-25页 |
| ·Chinese you Sentence VS English there be Sentence | 第25-26页 |
| ·Theoretical Foundations for the Present Study | 第26-28页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics | 第26-27页 |
| ·Error Analysis | 第27页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis(CIA) | 第27-28页 |
| ·An Overview of English Existential Construction Studies | 第28-34页 |
| ·SLA Studies of EC by Foreign Researchers | 第28-30页 |
| ·Studies of EC by Domestic Researchers | 第30-33页 |
| ·Ontological Studies of EC | 第30-31页 |
| ·Second Language Acquisition Studies of EC | 第31-33页 |
| ·Comments on Previous Studies of Existential Construction | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第34-38页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第34页 |
| ·Instrument | 第34-35页 |
| ·Data Sources | 第34-35页 |
| ·Frequency Retrieval and Significance Test Instruments | 第35页 |
| ·Research Description | 第35-36页 |
| ·Research Procedures of Corpus Analysis | 第36-37页 |
| ·Research Design of Writing Task | 第37-38页 |
| ·Subjects | 第37页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis Procedures | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第38-59页 |
| ·Comparison between CLEC and BNC | 第38-45页 |
| ·Comparison of EC in Terms of Overall frequency | 第38-43页 |
| ·Overall Frequency of EC in CLEC and BNC | 第38-39页 |
| ·Discussion on the Overuse of Existential Construction | 第39-42页 |
| ·Possible Explanations for the Overuse of EC | 第42-43页 |
| ·Comparison of EC in Terms of Existential Verb | 第43-45页 |
| ·Discourse-pragmatic Function of EC in CIL | 第45-48页 |
| ·The Observed Discourse-pragmatic Function of EC | 第45-47页 |
| ·Discussion on the Discourse-pragmatic Function | 第47-48页 |
| ·Error analysis | 第48-55页 |
| ·Subject-predicate Disagreement | 第49-50页 |
| ·Existential Pseudo-relative Clause | 第50-53页 |
| ·Have type | 第53-54页 |
| ·Misuse of there be Sentences | 第54-55页 |
| ·Results and Analysis of EC Produced in Writing Task | 第55-59页 |
| ·The Complexity of EC in Three Proficiency Learners' Writings | 第55-57页 |
| ·Grammaticality of EC in Three Proficiency Learners' Writings | 第57页 |
| ·Findings of the Development in Chinese Learners' Acquisition of EC | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Research | 第59-60页 |
| ·Implications for Teaching EC | 第60页 |
| ·Limitations of This Study | 第60-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-65页 |
| Appendix Samples of Writings | 第65-67页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第67-68页 |
| 个人简历 | 第68页 |
| 发表的学术论文 | 第68页 |
