| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第1-16页 |
| 1．1 Nouns and Determiners | 第8-9页 |
| 1．2 Functions of Determiners | 第9-10页 |
| 1．2．1 Semantic Functions of Determiners | 第9页 |
| 1．2．2 Syntactic Functions of Determiners | 第9-10页 |
| 1．3 Historical Development of Determiners | 第10-14页 |
| 1．3．1 Palmer's View on Determiners | 第10-11页 |
| 1．3．2 Quirk's View on Determiners | 第11-12页 |
| 1．3．3 Leech's View on Determiners | 第12页 |
| 1．3．4 Close's View on Determiners | 第12-13页 |
| 1．3．5 Halliday's View on Determiners | 第13页 |
| 1．3．6 Fawcett's View on Determiners | 第13-14页 |
| 1．4 Significance of Studying Determiners | 第14-15页 |
| 1．4．1 Purpose of the Study | 第14页 |
| 1．4．2 Methods and Focus of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| 1．4．3 Corpora Used in the Thesis | 第15页 |
| 1．5 Layout of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ ENGLISH DETERMINERS | 第16-37页 |
| 2．1 General Consideration on Determiners | 第16-21页 |
| 2．1．1 Definition of Determiners | 第16页 |
| 2．1．2 Determiners in English | 第16-18页 |
| 2．1．3 Classification of Determiners | 第18页 |
| 2．1．4 Determiners and Adjectives | 第18-19页 |
| 2．1．5 Determiners and Pronouns | 第19-20页 |
| 2．1．6 Determiners and Quantifiers | 第20页 |
| 2．1．7 Determiners and Articles | 第20页 |
| 2．1．8 Order of Determiners | 第20-21页 |
| 2．2 Definite Identifiers | 第21-26页 |
| 2．2．1 Definite Identifiers of Singular Count, Plural Count and Noncount Nouns | 第21-23页 |
| 2．2．2 Definite Identifiers of Singular Count and Noncount Nouns | 第23-24页 |
| 2．2．3 Definite Identifiers of Singular Count and Plural Count Nouns | 第24-25页 |
| 2．2．4 Definite Identifiers of Plural Count Nouns | 第25-26页 |
| 2．3 Indefinite Identifiers | 第26-28页 |
| 2．3．1 Indefinite Identifiers of All Three Noun Classes | 第26-27页 |
| 2．3．2 Indefinite Identifiers of Singular Count Nouns | 第27-28页 |
| 2．4 Defmite Quantifiers | 第28-30页 |
| 2．4．1 Definite Quantifiers of All Three Noun Classes | 第28-29页 |
| 2．4．2 Definite Quantifiers of singular Count Nouns | 第29-30页 |
| 2．4．3 Definite Quantifiers of Plural Count Nouns | 第30页 |
| 2．5 Indefinite Quantifiers | 第30-37页 |
| 2．5．1 Indefinite Quantifiers of All Three Noun Classes | 第30-33页 |
| 2．5．2 Indefinite Quantifiers of Plural Count and Noncount Nouns | 第33-34页 |
| 2．5．3 Indefinite Quantifiers of Plural Count Nouns | 第34-35页 |
| 2．5．4 Indefinite Quantifiers of Noncount Nouns | 第35-36页 |
| 2．5．5 Indefinite Quantifiers of Singular Count and Noncount Nouns | 第36-37页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ CENTRAL DETERMINERS IN NOUN PHRASES | 第37-63页 |
| 3．1 Three Classes of Determiners in Noun Phrases | 第37-41页 |
| 3．1．1 Predeterminers | 第37-39页 |
| 3．1．2 Postdeterminers | 第39-40页 |
| 3．1．3 Central Determiners | 第40-41页 |
| 3．2 Central Determiners in Noun Phrases | 第41-45页 |
| 3．2．1 Central Determiners of All Three Noun Classes | 第41-42页 |
| 3．2．2 Central Determiners of Plural Count and Noncount Nouns | 第42页 |
| 3．2．3 Central Determiners of Singular Count and Noncount Nouns | 第42-43页 |
| 3．2．4 Central Determiners of Plural Count Nouns | 第43页 |
| 3．2．5 Central Determiners of Singular Count Nouns | 第43-45页 |
| 3．3 Typical Central Determiners: Articles | 第45-63页 |
| 3．3．1 Brief Introduction of Articles | 第45-48页 |
| 3．3．2 Uses of the Indefinite Article | 第48-51页 |
| 3．3．3 Uses of the Definite Article | 第51-54页 |
| 3．3．4 Uses of the Zero Article | 第54-57页 |
| 3．3．5 Uses of Articles Before Proper Nouns | 第57-61页 |
| 3．3．6 Other Uses of Articles | 第61-63页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS OF CENTRAI, DETERMINERS IN MTE COMPARED WITH OTHER CORPORA | 第63-98页 |
| 4．1 Distributions of Predeterminers | 第70-72页 |
| 4．2 Distributions of Postdeterminers | 第72-74页 |
| 4．3 Distributions of Central Determiners | 第74-98页 |
| 4．3．1 Distributions and Analysis of Central Determiners of All Three Noun Classes | 第76-82页 |
| 4．3．2 Distributions and Analysis of Central Determiners of Plural Count and Noncount | 第82-83页 |
| 4．3．3 Distributions and Analysis of Central Determiners of Singular Count and Noncount Nouns | 第83-86页 |
| 4．3．4 Distributions and Analysis of Central Determiners of Plural Count Nouns | 第86-89页 |
| 4．3．5 Distributions and Analysis of Central Determiners of Singular Count Nouns | 第89-91页 |
| 4．3．6 Distributions and Amalysis of Articles | 第91-98页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ CONCLUSION | 第98-103页 |
| REFERENCES | 第103-105页 |
| APPENDIX | 第105-107页 |
