| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Objective of the Research | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第14-15页 |
| ·Corpus Description and Research Methods | 第15-16页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-36页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Adverbial Conjunctions | 第17-24页 |
| ·Definition of Adverbial Conjunctions | 第17-18页 |
| ·Related Researches at Home and Abroad | 第18-21页 |
| ·Range and Classification of Adverbial Conjunctions | 第21-24页 |
| ·Previous Studies on“也许”,“或许”,“兴许”,“可能”,“大概”and probably,perhaps, maybe, likely, possibly | 第24-30页 |
| ·Researches on“也许”,“或许”,“兴许”,“可能”,“大概” | 第25-27页 |
| ·Researches on probably, perhaps, maybe, likely, possibly | 第27-30页 |
| ·Related Theories | 第30-36页 |
| ·Halliday’s Functional Grammar | 第30-33页 |
| ·Halliday and Hasan’s Cohesion Theory | 第33-34页 |
| ·Discourse Analysis | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 3 Syntactic Features of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions in Chineseand English | 第36-78页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions in Chinese:“也许”,“兴许”,“或许”,“可能”,“大概” | 第36-55页 |
| ·Syntactic Structure and Distribution | 第37-50页 |
| ·Collocation Features and Co-occurrence | 第50-55页 |
| ·Syntactic Features of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions in English: probably,perhaps, maybe, likely, possibly | 第55-74页 |
| ·Syntactic Structure and Distribution | 第56-71页 |
| ·Collocation Features and Co-occurrence | 第71-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-78页 |
| Chapter 4 Semantic Features of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions in Chineseand English | 第78-99页 |
| ·Semantic Features of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions in Chinese:“也许”,“或许”,“兴许”,“可能”,“大概” | 第78-86页 |
| ·Lexical and Grammatical Meaning | 第79-83页 |
| ·Semantic Configuration | 第83-86页 |
| ·Semantic Features of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions in English: probably,perhaps, possibly, likely, maybe | 第86-90页 |
| ·Lexical and Grammatical Meaning | 第86-87页 |
| ·Semantic Configuration | 第87-90页 |
| ·Logical Dependency and Logico-semantic Relations | 第90-97页 |
| ·Cause and Effect | 第91-94页 |
| ·Condition | 第94-95页 |
| ·Adversative | 第95-97页 |
| ·Summary | 第97-99页 |
| Chapter 5 Pragmatic Functions of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions in Chineseand English | 第99-110页 |
| ·Information Focus Marking Function | 第99-102页 |
| ·Discourse Marking Function | 第102-105页 |
| ·Emphatic Function | 第105-107页 |
| ·Subjectivisation Function | 第107-108页 |
| ·Summary | 第108-110页 |
| Chapter 6 Textual Cohesion Functions of Probable Adverbial Conjunctions inChinese and English | 第110-123页 |
| ·Reference | 第110-114页 |
| ·Personal Reference | 第111-112页 |
| ·Demonstrative Reference | 第112-113页 |
| ·Comparative Reference | 第113-114页 |
| ·Ellipsis and Substitution | 第114-116页 |
| ·Clausal Ellipsis | 第114-115页 |
| ·Verbal Ellipsis | 第115页 |
| ·Nominal Ellipsis | 第115-116页 |
| ·Conjunction | 第116-119页 |
| ·Alternative | 第117-118页 |
| ·Positive Addition | 第118页 |
| ·Manner | 第118-119页 |
| ·Lexical Cohesion | 第119-122页 |
| ·Repetition | 第119-120页 |
| ·Synonymy | 第120-121页 |
| ·Collocation | 第121-122页 |
| ·Summary | 第122-123页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第123-127页 |
| ·Major Findings and Implications | 第123-126页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第126-127页 |
| Bibliography | 第127-132页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第132-133页 |
| 攻读学位期间取得的研究成果 | 第133页 |
