| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| 0.1 Research Background | 第13-14页 |
| 0.2 Research Motivation | 第14-15页 |
| 0.3 Research Method | 第15-16页 |
| 0.4 Information of the Sample Chamber | 第16-18页 |
| 0.5 Organization of the Thesis | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter one Literature Review | 第21-33页 |
| 1.1 Previous Studies of Interrogatives in English and Chinese | 第21-26页 |
| 1.1.1 Previous Studies of Interrogatives in English | 第21-24页 |
| 1.1.2 Previous Studies of Interrogatives in Chinese | 第24-26页 |
| 1.2 Previous Studies of WH—questions in English and Chinese | 第26-32页 |
| 1.2.1 Previous Studies of WH-questions in English | 第27-30页 |
| 1.2.2 Previous Studies of WH-questions in Chinese | 第30-32页 |
| 1.3 Summary | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation | 第33-47页 |
| 2.1 Typology | 第33-40页 |
| 2.1.1 Definition of Typology | 第33-35页 |
| 2.1.2 Development of Typology | 第35-36页 |
| 2.1.3 Implicational Universals | 第36-39页 |
| 2.1.4 Grammatical Hierarchy | 第39-40页 |
| 2.2 Prototype | 第40-45页 |
| 2.2.1 Origin of Prototype | 第41-42页 |
| 2.2.2 Definition of Prototype | 第42-43页 |
| 2.2.3 Properties of Prototype | 第43-44页 |
| 2.2.4 Applications in Language Research | 第44-45页 |
| 2.3 Summary | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Three Syntactic and Semantic Classification of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第47-63页 |
| 3.1 Syntactic Classification of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第47-54页 |
| 3.1.1 Syntactic Classification of English | 第47-51页 |
| 3.1.2 Syntactic Classification of Chinese | 第51-54页 |
| 3.2 Semantic Classification of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第54-60页 |
| 3.2.1 Semantic Classification of English | 第55-57页 |
| 3.2.2 Semantic Classification of Chinese | 第57-60页 |
| 3.3 Summary | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter Four Implicational Universals and Grammatical Hierarchy | 第63-95页 |
| 4.1 Implicational Universals of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第63-79页 |
| 4.1.1 Implicational Universals of Constituent Order of WH-questions | 第63-75页 |
| 4.1.2 Implicational Universals of Non-interrogative Usage of WH-questions | 第75-79页 |
| 4.2 Grammatical Hierarchy of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第79-93页 |
| 4.2.1 Grammatical Hierarchy of Non-interrogative Usage of WH-questions | 第80-87页 |
| 4.2.2 Grammatical Hierarchy of Definiteness of Interrogative Subject of WH-questions | 第87-93页 |
| 4.3 Summary | 第93-95页 |
| Chapter Five Cognitive Explanation of the Typological Properties of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第95-113页 |
| 5.1 Prototype Explanation of Implicational Universals of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第96-104页 |
| 5.1.1 Prototype Explanation of Implicational Universals of WH-questions' Constituent Order | 第98-102页 |
| 5.1.2 Prototype Explanation of Implicational Universals of Non-interrogative Usage of WH-questions | 第102-104页 |
| 5.2 Prototype Explanation of Grammatical Hierarchies of English and Chinese WH-questions | 第104-111页 |
| 5.2.1 Prototype Explanation of Grammatical Hierarchies of WH-questions' Non-interrogative Usage | 第106-109页 |
| 5.2.2 Prototype Explanation of Grammatical Hierarchies of Definiteness of Interrogative Subject | 第109-111页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第111-113页 |
| Conclusions | 第113-119页 |
| Bibliography | 第119-129页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第129-131页 |
