| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| 1.1 Background Information | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study | 第12-14页 |
| 1.3 Research Questions | 第14页 |
| 1.4 Layout | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-31页 |
| 2.1 Future Time | 第16-21页 |
| 2.1.1 Time Division | 第16-17页 |
| 2.1.2 Grammaticalization of Time | 第17-21页 |
| 2.2 Means of Expressing Future Time | 第21-25页 |
| 2.3 Modalities by Means of Expressing Future Time | 第25-28页 |
| 2.3.1 Introduction to Modality | 第25-27页 |
| 2.3.2 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Modality by Means of Expressing Future Time | 第27-28页 |
| 2.4 Previous Studies on the Means of Expressing Future Time | 第28-30页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第31-40页 |
| 3.1 Corpora Used in This Thesis | 第31-35页 |
| 3.1.1 Corpus Linguistics | 第31-32页 |
| 3.1.2 Corpus-based Approach | 第32-33页 |
| 3.1.3 Advantages of Corpus Linguistics | 第33页 |
| 3.1.4 Corpora Used in This Study | 第33-35页 |
| 3.2 Instruments and Statistics | 第35-37页 |
| 3.2.1 Instruments | 第35-37页 |
| 3.2.2 Statistics | 第37页 |
| 3.3 Procedure | 第37-40页 |
| 3.3.1 Data Collection | 第38页 |
| 3.3.2 Data Selection | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis and Discussion | 第40-65页 |
| 4.1 Distributions | 第40-43页 |
| 4.1.1 General Distribution of the Different Means of Expressing Future Time | 第40-42页 |
| 4.1.2 Statistic Analysis on the Means of Expressing Future Time | 第42页 |
| 4.1.3 Corpus Findings | 第42-43页 |
| 4.2 Register Analysis on the Different Means of Expressing Future Time | 第43-49页 |
| 4.2.1 Distributions of the Means of Expressing Future Time in Different Registers | 第43-46页 |
| 4.2.2 Statistic Analysis on the Five Means in Different Registers | 第46-48页 |
| 4.2.3 Corpus Findings of the Five Means in Different Registers | 第48-49页 |
| 4.3 Diachronic Development of the Means of Expressing Future Time over Two Hundred Years | 第49-55页 |
| 4.3.1 Distributions of Each One of the Five Means of Expressing Future Time | 第50-52页 |
| 4.3.2 Statistic Analysis of Each One of the Five Means of Expressing Future Time | 第52-53页 |
| 4.3.3 Corpus Findings of the Diachronic Development in Each Means of Expressing Future Time | 第53-54页 |
| 4.3.4 Distribution of the Means of Expressing Future Time | 第54页 |
| 4.3.5 Statistic Analysis of the Means of Expressing Future Time | 第54-55页 |
| 4.3.6 Corpus Findings of the Diachronic Developments in the Means of Expressing Future Time | 第55页 |
| 4.4 Application of the Findings to Translation | 第55-63页 |
| 4.4.1 Translation of Means of Expressing Future Time in Sentences | 第55-59页 |
| 4.4.2 Translation of Means of Expressing Future Time in Texts | 第59-63页 |
| 4.5 Summary | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第65-70页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第65-67页 |
| 5.1.1 Theoretical Findings | 第65-67页 |
| 5.1.2 Practical Findings | 第67页 |
| 5.2 Implications | 第67-68页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Suggestions | 第68-70页 |
| References | 第70-73页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第73-74页 |
| Resume | 第74页 |
