| Abstract | 第1-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第9-26页 |
| ·The emergence and development of Chinese classifiers | 第9-16页 |
| ·A review of the development of Chinese nominal classifiers | 第9-14页 |
| ·Discussion on the motivation for the emergence of classifiers | 第14-16页 |
| ·Previous studies on classifiers | 第16-24页 |
| ·The identification of classifiers as a word class in Chinese lexicon | 第17-19页 |
| ·The classification of classifiers | 第19-21页 |
| ·Studies on other aspects of classifiers | 第21-24页 |
| ·The counterpart of classifiers in English | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Background | 第26-35页 |
| ·Cognitive science and cognitive linguistics | 第26-28页 |
| ·The categorization theory | 第28-32页 |
| ·The categorization theory in the study of classifiers | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter 3 A Cognitive Division of Chinese Classifiers | 第35-45页 |
| ·Measure classifiers | 第35-38页 |
| ·The subclasses of categorization classifiers | 第38-43页 |
| ·Categorization classifiers derived via metaphorical change | 第39-40页 |
| ·Categorization classifiers derived via metonymical change | 第40-41页 |
| ·Categorization classifiers derived via image-schema transformation | 第41-43页 |
| ·Some other problems worth mentioning | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter 4 The Comparison Between Classifiers and Partitives | 第45-55页 |
| ·The similarities between the two counterparts | 第46-49页 |
| ·The differences between the two counterparts | 第49-55页 |
| Conclusion and Discussion | 第55-58页 |
| References | 第58-61页 |
| Appendix 1: The historical generalization of four classifiers (Erbaugh, 1986:429) | 第61页 |
