| 英文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第6-7页 |
| CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 第7-17页 |
| 1．1 IMPORTANCE OF GENITIVE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES | 第7-11页 |
| 1．1．1 The language specificity of the English genitive | 第7-11页 |
| 1．2 A STUDY OF THE GENITIVE FROM SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC APPROACHES | 第11-15页 |
| 1．2．1 The genitive in Old English | 第11-12页 |
| 1．2．2 The genitive in Middle English | 第12-14页 |
| 1．2．3 The genitive in contemporary English | 第14-15页 |
| 1．3 THE AIM AND THE LAYOUT OF THE THESIS | 第15-17页 |
| 1．3．1 The aim and significance of the study | 第15页 |
| 1．3．2 Corpora and software in my study | 第15-16页 |
| 1．3．3 Layout of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER 2 CLASSIFICATION AND THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF THE GENITIVE IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH | 第17-56页 |
| 2．1 CLASSIFICATION OF THE ENGLISH GENITIVE | 第17-20页 |
| 2．1．1 S-genitive | 第17页 |
| 2．1．2 Of-construction | 第17-18页 |
| 2．1．3 Possessive adjectives & possessive pronouns | 第18-19页 |
| 2．1．4 Verbs denoting possession | 第19页 |
| 2．1．5 Preposition denoting possession | 第19页 |
| 2．1．6 The words ”whose” and ”of which” | 第19-20页 |
| 2．2 TERMINOLOGY AND DEFINITION OF THE TERM | 第20-21页 |
| 2．2．1 Terminology of the constructions | 第20-21页 |
| 2．2．2 Definition of the term | 第21页 |
| 2．3 THEORETICAL OVERVIEW OF THE ENGLISH GENITIVE | 第21-28页 |
| 2．3．1 Jespersen's view on the genitive | 第21-22页 |
| 2．3．2 The genitive: some generative approaches | 第22-26页 |
| 2．3．3 Partee's view on the genitive | 第26-28页 |
| 2．4 THE SEMANTIC RELATIONS OF THE GENITIVE | 第28-38页 |
| 2．4．1 Possessive genitive | 第29-31页 |
| 2．4．2 Subjective genitive | 第31-32页 |
| 2．4．3 Objective genitive | 第32-33页 |
| 2．4．4 Descriptive genitive | 第33-35页 |
| 2．4．5 Partitive genitive | 第35-36页 |
| 2．4．6 Genitive of origin | 第36页 |
| 2．4．7 Genitive of measure | 第36-37页 |
| 2．4．8 Appositive genitive | 第37-38页 |
| 2．5 THE GENITIVE IN RELATION TO NOUN CLASSES | 第38-39页 |
| 2．6 THE GRAMMATICAL STATUS OF THE GENITIVE | 第39-48页 |
| 2．6．1 Genitive as determinative | 第39-41页 |
| 2．6．2 Genitive as modifier | 第41-43页 |
| 2．6．3 The group genitive | 第43-44页 |
| 2．6．4 The independent genitive | 第44页 |
| 2．6．5 The local genitive | 第44-45页 |
| 2．6．6 The post-genitive | 第45-48页 |
| 2．7 THE CHOICE BETWEEN THE OF-CONSTRUCTION AND THE GENITIVE CONSTRUCTION | 第48-56页 |
| 2．7．1 Lexical factors | 第48-49页 |
| 2．7．2 Relational factors | 第49页 |
| 2．7．3 Objective and subjective relation | 第49-53页 |
| 2．7．4 Syntactic factors | 第53-55页 |
| 2．7．5 Communicative factors | 第55-56页 |
| CHAPTER 3 STATISTIC AND ANALYSES OF THE GENITIVE IN NEC | 第56-93页 |
| 3．1 THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENITIVE IN NEC AND OTHER CORPORA | 第56-60页 |
| 3．2 THE DISTRIBUTION OF OF-CONSTRUCTION IN NEC AND OTHER CORPORA | 第60-61页 |
| 3．3 COMPARISON BETWEEN S-GENITIVE AND OF-CONSTRUCTION IN THE SIX CORPORA | 第61-62页 |
| 3．4 QUANTITATIVE AND TEXTUAL ANALYSES OF THE GENITIVE IN NEC | 第62-90页 |
| 3．4．1 Possessive genitive | 第63-68页 |
| 3．4．2 Subjective genitive | 第68-74页 |
| 3．4．3 Objective genitive | 第74-75页 |
| 3．4．4 Descriptive genitive | 第75-82页 |
| 3．4．5 Partitive genitive | 第82-85页 |
| 3．4．6 Genitive of origin | 第85-88页 |
| 3．4．7 Genitive of measure | 第88-89页 |
| 3．4．8 Genitive of apposition | 第89-90页 |
| 3．5 THE GENITIVE IN RELATION TO NOUN CLASSES | 第90-93页 |
| CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION | 第93-95页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第95-96页 |
| REFERENCES | 第96-98页 |
| APPENDIXES | 第98-102页 |
