| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第14-22页 |
| ·Studies Abroad | 第14-18页 |
| ·The Overview of Word Order | 第16-17页 |
| ·Definition of Word Order | 第16-17页 |
| ·Functions of Word Order | 第17页 |
| ·Comparisons between Chinese and English Word Order | 第17-18页 |
| ·Domestic Study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Theoretical Background | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two A Macroscopic Contrastive Study of Word Order in Chinese and English | 第22-34页 |
| ·The Similarities of Word Order in Chinese and English | 第22-26页 |
| ·The Basic Word Order | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Basic Word Order in English | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Direct Word Order in Chinese | 第23页 |
| ·Rigidity | 第23-26页 |
| ·Rigidity in English Word Order | 第23-25页 |
| ·Rigidity in Chinese Word Order | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Macroscopic Differences of Word Order between Chinese and English | 第26-34页 |
| ·Hypotactic vs. Paratactic | 第26-27页 |
| ·Synthetic vs. Analytic | 第27-28页 |
| ·Convergent vs. Divergent | 第28-31页 |
| ·Passive vs. Active | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter Three A Microscopic Contrastive Study of Word Order in Chinese and English | 第34-54页 |
| ·The Implement of Iconicity for Analyzing Word Order in Chinese and English | 第34-38页 |
| ·Word Order Iconicity at the Phrase Level | 第34-37页 |
| ·The Expression of Distance Iconicity in Modifiers | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Expression of Markedness Iconicity in Linguistic Freezes | 第35-37页 |
| ·Sequence Iconicity of Word Order at the Sentential Level | 第37页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity of Word Order at the Sentential Level | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Microscopic Differences of Word Order between Chinese and English | 第38-54页 |
| ·Subject vs. Topic | 第38-45页 |
| ·Chinese as a Topic-Prominent Language | 第41-42页 |
| ·English as a Subject-Prominent Language | 第42-43页 |
| ·Different Topic Statement in Chinese and English | 第43-44页 |
| ·Animate Subject vs. Inanimate subject in Chinese and English | 第44-45页 |
| ·Difference in the Position of the Object | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Position of Object in Chinese | 第46页 |
| ·The Position of Object in English | 第46-47页 |
| ·Difference in the Position of the Attributive | 第47-49页 |
| ·Difference in the Position of the Adverbial | 第49-54页 |
| Chapter Four Special Cases of Word Order | 第54-70页 |
| ·Subjectless Sentences | 第54-59页 |
| ·The Definition of Subjectless Sentences | 第54-55页 |
| ·Subjectless Sentences in Chinese | 第55-57页 |
| ·The reasons for the Generation of Subjectless Sentences in Chinese | 第55-56页 |
| ·The Skills for Subject Selection | 第56-57页 |
| ·Subjectless Sentences in English | 第57-59页 |
| ·Inverted Sentences | 第59-64页 |
| ·The Definition of Inversion | 第59-60页 |
| ·Inversion in Chinese | 第60-62页 |
| ·Subject-Predicate Inversion | 第60-61页 |
| ·Inversions with the Adverbials or Attributives Postponed | 第61-62页 |
| ·Inversion in English | 第62-64页 |
| ·Grammatical Inversion | 第62-63页 |
| ·Emphatic Inversion | 第63-64页 |
| ·Cleft Sentences | 第64-70页 |
| ·The Definition of Cleft Sentences and its Type | 第65-66页 |
| ·Cleft Sentences in Chinese | 第66页 |
| ·Cleft Sentences in English | 第66-70页 |
| Conclusion | 第70-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-73页 |
