| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| 1．1 Various Definitions of There-construction | 第11-13页 |
| 1．2 Necessity of a Construction-based Account of There-construction | 第13-15页 |
| 1．3 The Layout of this Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-31页 |
| 2．1 The Transformational Approach to There-construction | 第17-26页 |
| 2．1．1 There in There-construction | 第18-20页 |
| 2．1．2 The Quantification Effect | 第20-22页 |
| 2．1．3 Property Predication Restriction | 第22-24页 |
| 2．1．4 Problems with the Transformational Approach | 第24-26页 |
| 2．2 A Systemic-functional Account of There-construction | 第26-28页 |
| 2．3 Lakoff's Analysis of There-construction | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework: Construction Grammar Theory | 第31-39页 |
| 3．1 The Concept of Grammatical Construction | 第31-33页 |
| 3．2 Motivation | 第33-34页 |
| 3．3 A Brief Introduction to Construction Grammar Theory | 第34-36页 |
| 3．4 Advantages of Construction Grammar Theory | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Four A Construction-based Account of There-construction | 第39-69页 |
| 4．1 The Existence of TTiere-construction | 第39-42页 |
| 4．2 Form-use Mapping of Deictic There-constructions | 第42-56页 |
| 4．2．1 Syntactic Configuration and Properties of the Central DTC | 第43页 |
| 4．2．2 Constructional Meaning and Pragmatic Function of the Central DTC | 第43-44页 |
| 4．2．3 Motivations for Formal Constraints on the Central DTC | 第44-48页 |
| 4．2．4 Peculiarities of Noncentral Deictic There-constructions | 第48-56页 |
| 4．2．4．1 The Perceptual Deictic There-construction | 第49-50页 |
| 4．2．4．2 The Discourse Deictic There-construction | 第50-51页 |
| 4．2．4．3 The Presentational Deictic There-construction | 第51-52页 |
| 4．2．4．4 The Delivery Deictic There-construction | 第52-53页 |
| 4．2．4．5 The Existence Deictic There-construction | 第53-54页 |
| 4．2．4．6 The Paragon Deictic There -construction | 第54-56页 |
| 4．3 Form-use Mapping of Existential There-constructions | 第56-66页 |
| 4．3．1 Syntactic Configuration and Properties of the Central ETC | 第57页 |
| 4．3．2 Constructional Meaning and Pragmatic Function of the Central ETC | 第57-58页 |
| 4．3．3 Motivations for Formal Constraints on the Central ETC | 第58-61页 |
| 4．3．4 Peculiarities of Noncentral Existential There-constructions | 第61-66页 |
| 4．3．4．1 The Strange Existential There-construction | 第61-62页 |
| 4．3．4．2 The Ontological Existential There-construction | 第62-63页 |
| 4．3．4．3 The Infinitival Existential There-construction | 第63-64页 |
| 4．3．4．4 The Presentational Existential There-construction | 第64-66页 |
| 4．4 The Relationship Between ETCs and DTCs | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-76页 |
