| 英文摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-14页 |
| 1．1 ES and Its Unique Features | 第10-11页 |
| 1．2 Historical Review | 第11-12页 |
| 1．3 The Adopted Approach in this Dissertation | 第12页 |
| 1．4 The Organization of this Dissertation | 第12-14页 |
| CHAFFER TWO COGNITIVE GRAMMAR: FOUNDATIONS,ORGANIZING ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODOLOGY | 第14-35页 |
| 2．1 Foundations of Cognitive Grammar | 第14-17页 |
| 2．2 Organizing Assumptions of Cognitive Grammar | 第17-31页 |
| 2．2．1 Grammatical Organization | 第17-19页 |
| 2．2．2 Grammar as a Symbolic Phenomenon | 第19-24页 |
| 2．2．3 Grammar as Image | 第24-31页 |
| 2．3 Some Methodological Principles | 第31-35页 |
| 2．3．1 Conceptual Unification | 第31-32页 |
| 2．3．2 Restrictiveness | 第32页 |
| 2．3．3 Converging Evidence | 第32-35页 |
| CHAPTER THREE INVESTIGATION ON ES FROM A COGNITIVE GRAMMATICAL PERSPECTIVE | 第35-72页 |
| 3．1 Investigation on the Unity between ES and Predicate Locative | 第35-51页 |
| 3．1．1 Complementarity between the Predicate Locative and the ES | 第37-40页 |
| 3．1．1．1 Complementarity between the Predicate Locative and the Locative Subject ES | 第37-39页 |
| 3．1．1．2 Complementarity between the Predicate Locative and the Proform ES | 第39-40页 |
| 3．1．2 Trajector and Landmark Construct | 第40-42页 |
| 3．1．3 Cognitive Analysis of the Unity between Predicate Locative and ES | 第42-51页 |
| 3．1．3．1 Cognitive Assumption of the Grammatical Classes | 第43-44页 |
| 3．1．3．2 Cognitive Analysis of the Constituents | 第44-47页 |
| 3．1．3．3 Cognitive Analysis on the Symbolic Construction of the Predicate Locative | 第47-49页 |
| 3．1．3．4 Cognitive Analysis on the Symbolic Construction of the ES | 第49-50页 |
| 3．1．3．5 Comparison and Conclusion | 第50-51页 |
| 3．2 Investigation on the Definiteness of the NP in ES | 第51-63页 |
| 3．2．1 The Definiteness Restriction | 第52-53页 |
| 3．2．2 Conceptual Basis of NP in Cognitive Grammar | 第53-56页 |
| 3．2．2．1 Conceptual Import of Noun Class | 第53-55页 |
| 3．2．2．2 Conceptual Import of a NP | 第55-56页 |
| 3．2．3 Conceptual Basis for Definiteness | 第56-59页 |
| 3．2．3．1 Mental Contact and Mental Space | 第56-58页 |
| 3．2．3．2 The Definite Article and Indefinite Article | 第58-59页 |
| 3．2．4 Cognitive Analysis on the Definiteness Restriction of ES | 第59-61页 |
| 3．2．5 Summaries and Conclusions | 第61-63页 |
| 3．3 Investigation on the Proform “there” in English ES | 第63-72页 |
| 3．3．1 Historical Studies and the Inadequacies | 第63-66页 |
| 3．3．2 Conceptual Imports of “there”” | 第66-69页 |
| 3．3．3 The Function of “there” in English ES | 第69-72页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR A CASE STUDY ON CHINESE ES | 第72-85页 |
| 4．1 Chinese ES, Its Classification and Characteristics | 第72-77页 |
| 4．2 Cognitive Investigation on the Unity between Possessive and Existential “you” Sentences | 第77-85页 |
| 4．2．1 The Possessive and Existential “you” Sentences | 第77-78页 |
| 4．2．2 The Subject of the Possessive “you” Sentence as a Search Domain | 第78-80页 |
| 4．2．3 Cognitive Analysis on the Symbolic Import of Possessive Sentences | 第80-82页 |
| 4．2．4 Unity between the Possessive and Existential “you” Sentences | 第82-85页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第85-88页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第88-91页 |
