| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Abbreviations and Symbols | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-20页 |
| ·Background of the study | 第14-17页 |
| ·Objectives and significance of the study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Research framework | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第20-29页 |
| ·English language history study at home and abroad | 第20-22页 |
| ·English language history study at home | 第20-21页 |
| ·English language history study abroad | 第21-22页 |
| ·Overview of linguistic typology study at home and abroad | 第22-26页 |
| ·Overview of linguistic typology study at home | 第23-24页 |
| ·Overview of linguistic typology study abroad | 第24-26页 |
| ·Linguistic typology and English language history | 第26-29页 |
| ·Typological classification and its history | 第26-27页 |
| ·Linguistic typology in the study of English language history | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Preliminaries | 第29-36页 |
| ·Linguistic typology and language change | 第29-32页 |
| ·Linguistic typology and language universals | 第30-31页 |
| ·Language change and language variation | 第31-32页 |
| ·Diachronic linguistic typology and language type changes | 第32-36页 |
| ·Hypotheses of diachronic linguistic typology | 第33-34页 |
| ·Model of language type change hypothesis | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 4 Diachronic Study on English Word Order | 第36-55页 |
| ·Word order typology and word order change | 第36-41页 |
| ·Word order or constituent order? | 第36-37页 |
| ·Word order universals and principles | 第37-40页 |
| ·Basic word order and word order change | 第40-41页 |
| ·English word order change | 第41-47页 |
| ·Word order change from O.E. to M.E | 第42-46页 |
| ·Word order at the NP level | 第43-44页 |
| ·Word order at the clause level | 第44-45页 |
| ·Order of V in sentence | 第45-46页 |
| ·Word order change from M.E. to Mn.E | 第46-47页 |
| ·Word order at the clause level | 第46页 |
| ·SVO order | 第46-47页 |
| ·Hierarchies, flexibility and mechanisms of English word order | 第47-54页 |
| ·Hierarchies of English word order | 第47-51页 |
| ·Flexibility of English word order | 第51-53页 |
| ·Mechanisms of word order fixity | 第53-54页 |
| ·Some thoughts of English word order typology study | 第54-55页 |
| Chapter 5 English Morphemes in Morphological Typology | 第55-74页 |
| ·Brief introduction to morphological typology | 第55-62页 |
| ·Morphemes and morphology | 第55-57页 |
| ·Morphological typology | 第57-62页 |
| ·Indices of synthesis and fusion | 第58-60页 |
| ·Historical change in morphological types | 第60-61页 |
| ·Language type changes—a new model | 第61-62页 |
| ·Diachronic change of English word inner-factors | 第62-64页 |
| ·Free morphemes and bound morphemes | 第62-63页 |
| ·Roots and affixes | 第63-64页 |
| ·Inflection of morphological patterns | 第64页 |
| ·Grammaticalization in English morphology | 第64-68页 |
| ·Grammaticalization | 第64-67页 |
| ·Grammaticalization in English langugage | 第67-68页 |
| ·Morphological change and word order change | 第68-74页 |
| ·Diachronic inflected change | 第69-73页 |
| ·Morphological change and word order change in English | 第73-74页 |
| Chapter 6 English Morphosyntactic Change | 第74-85页 |
| ·Diachronic morphosyntactic features of English language | 第74-79页 |
| ·Full-inflected morphosyntactic features of O.E | 第76页 |
| ·Half-inflected morphosyntactic features of M.E. | 第76-78页 |
| ·Isolating morphosyntactic features of Mn.E | 第78-79页 |
| ·Syntactic features of isolating language | 第79-81页 |
| ·Word order features of isolating language | 第80页 |
| ·Function word of isolating language | 第80-81页 |
| ·Change of English lexical and grammatical items | 第81-85页 |
| ·Case, number and gender of nouns | 第82页 |
| ·Pronouns and animacy hierarchy | 第82-83页 |
| ·Tense, number and mood of verbs | 第83页 |
| ·Adjectives change | 第83页 |
| ·Grammatical items change | 第83-85页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第85-90页 |
| ·Main findings of the study | 第85-87页 |
| ·Language change | 第86页 |
| ·Changeability, connectivity, graduality, and unidirectionality | 第86-87页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第87页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第87-90页 |
| ·Future of English | 第88页 |
| ·Predictability of language change | 第88-89页 |
| ·Futurolinguistics—a reverie | 第89-90页 |
| Bibliography | 第90-95页 |
| Appendix | 第95页 |
