| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-41页 |
| 2.1 Interlanguage Theory | 第14-30页 |
| 2.1.1 Historical background | 第14-18页 |
| 2.1.2 Interlanguage | 第18-22页 |
| 2.1.3 Language transfer | 第22-26页 |
| 2.1.4 Methodological issues in IL researches | 第26-28页 |
| 2.1.5 Current studies on IL | 第28页 |
| 2.1.6 Summary | 第28-30页 |
| 2.2 An Introduction to English Existential Sentence | 第30-36页 |
| 2.2.1 The interpretation of there | 第30-32页 |
| 2.2.2 The definiteness restriction | 第32-35页 |
| 2.2.3 Structure patterns of existential sentence | 第35-36页 |
| 2.2.4 Existential sentences with have | 第36页 |
| 2.3 An Introduction to Chinese Existential Sentence | 第36-39页 |
| 2.3.1 The classification of Chinese existential sentence | 第37页 |
| 2.3.2 The characteristics of Chinese existential sentence | 第37-38页 |
| 2.3.3 Chinese you Sentence vs. English have Sentence | 第38-39页 |
| 2.4 Studies on English and Chinese Existential Construction in China | 第39-40页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter 3 The Research | 第41-46页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第41-42页 |
| 3.2 Methodology | 第42-46页 |
| 3.2.1 Participants | 第42-43页 |
| 3.2.2 Procedures | 第43-45页 |
| 3.2.3 Instrument | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Analysis | 第46-73页 |
| 4.1 Results of the Picture Description Task | 第46-64页 |
| 4.1.1 The frequencies of there-E sentences used by the three grades | 第46-49页 |
| 4.1.2 The accuracy rate of there-E sentences used by the three grades | 第49-51页 |
| 4.1.3 Complex patterns of there-E sentence | 第51-54页 |
| 4.1.4 Developmental changes of the acquisition of there-E structure | 第54-56页 |
| 4.1.5 Errors rate in the writing task | 第56页 |
| 4.1.6 Error types appeared in the writing | 第56-58页 |
| 4.1.7 Error analysis | 第58-64页 |
| 4.2 Results of the Sentence Translation Task | 第64-69页 |
| 4.2.1 The frequencies of there-E sentences in translation task | 第64-66页 |
| 4.2.2 The accuracy rate of there-E sentences | 第66-67页 |
| 4.2.3 Errors of there-E sentences made in translation task | 第67-69页 |
| 4.3 Discussion of the Study | 第69-73页 |
| 4.3.1 Discussion on the frequencies of there-E construction | 第69页 |
| 4.3.2 Discussion on the complex use of there-E construction | 第69-70页 |
| 4.3.3 Discussion on the errors made by the students | 第70-73页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第73-79页 |
| References | 第79-86页 |
| Appendix | 第86页 |
