| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6页 |
| Abbreviations | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1.1 Preliminaries | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 The Background and Significance of This Research | 第14-15页 |
| 1.3 Research Questions and Proposals | 第15页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-28页 |
| 2.1 Classifiers and Massifiers | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 -men,-tati,-tul/-ney and -ra/-gulo are Accumulative Plural Markers | 第17-19页 |
| 2.3 -men,-tati,-tul/-ney and -ra/-gulo are Associative Plural Markers | 第19-23页 |
| 2.4 -men,-tati,-tul/-ney and -ra/-gulo are Definite Markers | 第23-27页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Plural Markers in Classifier Language and Non-classifier Language 17 | 第28-46页 |
| 3.1 -men and-s in Chierchia's (1998) Nominal Mapping Parameter | 第28-29页 |
| 3.2 -men in Chinese | 第29-33页 |
| 3.2.1 Accumulative Reading of CN-men and PN-men | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2.2 Associative Reading of PN-men and Pron-men | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2.3 Co-occurrence of -men and Quantity Expressions | 第31-33页 |
| 3.2.4 Co-occurrence of -men and dou | 第33页 |
| 3.3 -s in English | 第33-36页 |
| 3.3.1 N-s Functions as Argument and Predication | 第33-34页 |
| 3.3.2 Accumulative Reading of N-s | 第34-35页 |
| 3.3.3 Co-occurrence of -s and Quantity Expressions | 第35-36页 |
| 3.4 Comparison between -men and -s | 第36-43页 |
| 3.4.1 Similarities | 第36页 |
| 3.4.2 Differences and Causes | 第36-43页 |
| 3.5 Plural Markers in Other Classifier Languages | 第43-45页 |
| 3.6 Summary | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter 4 Definiteness of Plural Nouns is Not from Plural Marker | 第46-64页 |
| 4.1 Definiteness is not Specificity | 第48-50页 |
| 4.2 Topic Phrase is Higher than Finiteness Phrase in Split CP Projections | 第50-54页 |
| 4.3 Specificity in Clausal Topic Phrase | 第54-57页 |
| 4.4 Definiteness Phrase Corresponds to the Clausal Finiteness Phrase | 第57-58页 |
| 4.5 How Plural Nouns Get (In)definite Interpretation? | 第58-59页 |
| 4.6 Evidence from other Classifier Languages | 第59-63页 |
| 4.6.1 Evidence from Persian | 第59页 |
| 4.6.2 Evidence from Korean and Bangla | 第59-63页 |
| 4.7 Summary | 第63-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| References | 第66-70页 |
| Appendix A 攻读学位期间所发表的学术论文 | 第70-71页 |
| Appendix B 详细中文摘要 论量词语言中的名词复数标记 | 第71-74页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第74-75页 |
