| 摘要 | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Index to Figures | 第11-13页 |
| Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two The Theoretical Background of the Present Study | 第16-29页 |
| ·Key Concepts in the Study of Referentiality | 第16-18页 |
| ·Referring Expression | 第16页 |
| ·Specific Reference and Nonspecific Reference | 第16-17页 |
| ·Definiteness and Indefiniteness | 第17-18页 |
| ·Referentiality in Chinese | 第18-20页 |
| ·Chen Ping's (1987) Study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Sybesma's (1998,1999) and Sio's (2006) Study | 第20页 |
| ·The Nominal de in Mandarin | 第20-21页 |
| ·Literature Review on the Acquisition of Referentiality | 第21-29页 |
| ·The Study of the Acquisition of Referentiality in Indo-European Languages | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Study of the Acquisition of Referentiality in Chinese | 第24-27页 |
| ·The Significance of My Present Study | 第27页 |
| ·The Research Questions of the Present Study | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第29-40页 |
| ·Subjects, Method and Coding Procedure | 第29-32页 |
| ·Subjects | 第29页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第29-30页 |
| ·Data Transcription | 第30页 |
| ·Data Coding | 第30-32页 |
| ·Working Criteria for Determining whether an NP is an Argument or a Predicate | 第32-40页 |
| ·Single-word Utterances Consisting of Bare Noun or Proper Name | 第32-37页 |
| ·Multi-word Utterances Containing Two or More Words | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Four Findings and Discussions | 第40-83页 |
| ·Nonreferential Use: Forms of Predicate Nominals in the Speech of AJR and LSY | 第40-49页 |
| ·The Overall Picture of Predicate Nominals in the Speech of AJR and LSY | 第40-43页 |
| ·The Syntactic Development of Different Types of Predicate Nominals in the Speech of AJR and LSY | 第43-49页 |
| ·Referential Use: Forms of NP Arguments of Various Types in the Speech of AJR and LSY | 第49-83页 |
| ·The General Picture of Both Children's Production of Various NP Arguments | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Syntactic Development of Various Types of NP Argument Forms in the Speech of AJR and LSY | 第51-61页 |
| ·The Types of NP Arguments with Respect to Verb | 第61-66页 |
| ·NP Argument Forms Used for Nonspecific and Specific Reference | 第66-81页 |
| ·Discussion | 第81-83页 |
| Conclusion | 第83-87页 |
| References | 第87-91页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第91-93页 |
| Appendix A（攻读学位期间所发表的学术论文目录） | 第93-94页 |
| Appendix B Types and Tokens of Nominal de Constructions as Predicates for AJR and LSY | 第94-105页 |
| Appendix C NP Argument Forms with Respect to Verb | 第105-113页 |
| Appendix D Sample of Transcription | 第113-117页 |
| Appendix E 中文摘要 | 第117-120页 |
