| 英文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract（Chinese） | 第5-6页 |
| Abbreviations and Symbols | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第7-12页 |
| 1．1 The Significance of Linguistic Studies on MEE | 第7页 |
| 1．2 Purpose of the Study | 第7-8页 |
| 1．3 Nature of the Study | 第8页 |
| 1．4 Methods and Tools of the Study | 第8页 |
| 1．5 Corpora Used in the Thesis | 第8-9页 |
| 1．6 Definition of Quantifier | 第9-11页 |
| 1．7 Layout of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ An Overview of Quantifiers in General English | 第12-30页 |
| 2．1 The Status of Quantifiers in Grammar | 第12页 |
| 2．2 Historical Development of Quantifiers | 第12-22页 |
| 2．2．1 Sweet's View on Quantifiers | 第12-13页 |
| 2．2．2 Chomsky's View on Quantifiers | 第13-14页 |
| 2．2．3 Hall's View on Quantifiers | 第14页 |
| 2．2．4 Thomas's View on Quantifiers | 第14-16页 |
| 2．2．5 Jackendoff's View on Quantifiers | 第16-19页 |
| 2．2．6 Fowler's View on Quantifiers | 第19-22页 |
| 2．2．7 Close's View on Quantifiers | 第22页 |
| 2．3 Otto Jespersen's Insightful Analysis on Quantifiers | 第22-28页 |
| 2．4 Aldridge's Classifications of Quantifiers | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Theoretical Studies of Quantifiers | 第30-76页 |
| 3．1 Overt Quantifiers in English | 第30-31页 |
| 3．2 Quantifiers Compared with Other Grammatical Units | 第31-32页 |
| 3．2．1 Quantifiers and Adjectives | 第31-32页 |
| 3．2．2 Quantifiers and Pronouns | 第32页 |
| 3．2．3 Quantifiers and Articles | 第32页 |
| 3．2．4 Determiners and Quantifiers | 第32页 |
| 3．3 The Quantification of Objects Conceptualized as Things | 第32-76页 |
| 3．3．1 Overt Quantifiers and Implicit Quantification | 第33-34页 |
| 3．3．2 Overt Quantifiers | 第34页 |
| 3．3．3 Restrictions | 第34-38页 |
| 3．3．4 Implicit Quantification | 第38-45页 |
| 3．3．5 Overt Quantification within Limited Universes of Discourse | 第45-51页 |
| 3．3．6 Overt, Universal Quantifiers and the Notions of Unity and Distribution | 第51-61页 |
| 3．3．7 Existential any2 and some | 第61-64页 |
| 3．3．8 Proportional Quantification | 第64-76页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Statistics and Analysis of Quantifiers in MEE Compared with Other Corpora | 第76-100页 |
| 4．1 General Frequency and Distribution of Proportional Quantifiers in the Six Corpora | 第76-82页 |
| 4．2 Distributions of Overt Quantification within Limited Universe of Discourse | 第82-85页 |
| 4．3 Distributions of Proportional Quantification by Comparative Structures | 第85-87页 |
| 4．4 Distributions and Analysis of Overt Quantifiers | 第87-100页 |
| 4．4．1 Distributions and Analysis of Overt Quantifiers of All Three Noun Classes（Type A） | 第88-92页 |
| 4．4．2 Distributions and Analysis of Overt Quantifiers of Plural Count and Noncout Nouns（Type B ） | 第92-95页 |
| 4．4．3 Distributions and Analysis Overt Quantifiers of Plural Count Nouns（Type C） | 第95-96页 |
| 4．4．4 Distributions and Analysis of Overt Quantifiers of Singular Count Nouns（Type D） | 第96-100页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Conclusions | 第100-103页 |
| 5．1 Major Conclusions | 第100-101页 |
| 5．2 Implications for Classroom Teachers and Quantification Research | 第101-103页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第103-104页 |
| Reference | 第104-106页 |
| Appendix | 第106-110页 |
