| 摘要 | 第1-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9-10页 |
| TABLES | 第10-11页 |
| FIGURES | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| ·Orientation of the Present Study | 第12页 |
| ·Rationale of the Present Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Design of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-32页 |
| ·Knowledge about Adverbial Clauses in English | 第15-17页 |
| ·Classification of Adverbial Clauses | 第15-16页 |
| ·Syntactic Function of Adverbial Clauses | 第16-17页 |
| ·Research into the Ordering Distribution of Adverbial Clauses | 第17-19页 |
| ·Research on the Factors Determining the Ordering of Adverbial Clauses | 第19-26页 |
| ·Some Arguments on Constituent Order | 第19-22页 |
| ·Given-new Principle | 第19-20页 |
| ·Parsing Theory | 第20-21页 |
| ·Competing Motivations | 第21-22页 |
| ·Discourse Factor | 第22-23页 |
| ·Semantic Factor | 第23-24页 |
| ·Subordinator Factor | 第24-25页 |
| ·Branching Direction Factor | 第25-26页 |
| ·Other Factors | 第26页 |
| ·Research on the Position of Temporal Adverbial Clauses in English | 第26-28页 |
| ·Empirical Studies. of the Position of Temporal Adverbial Clauses Across Languages | 第28-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 3 A Conceptual Framework | 第32-40页 |
| ·Some Knowledge about Temporal Adverbial Clauses | 第32-34页 |
| ·Classification of Temporal Adverbial Clauses in English | 第33页 |
| ·Characteristics of Ordering Distribution of Temporal Adverbial Clauses in English | 第33-34页 |
| ·Practical Approaches for Quantitative Analysis: Corpus-based Approaches | 第34-35页 |
| ·Theory Foundations for Qualitative Analysis | 第35-38页 |
| ·Constituent Recognition Domain | 第36-37页 |
| ·Discourse Analysis Approaches | 第37-38页 |
| ·Integrated Framework | 第38页 |
| ·Variables in the Present Study | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter 4 Method and Procedure | 第40-48页 |
| ·Some Information about CLEC | 第40-41页 |
| ·Some Information about the Other Two Corpuses | 第41-42页 |
| ·Temporal Subordinators Selection | 第42页 |
| ·Research Design | 第42-43页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analytical Methods | 第43-44页 |
| ·Determining What Data to Collect | 第43-44页 |
| ·Analytical Methods | 第44页 |
| ·Procedure | 第44-48页 |
| ·Procedure for CLEC | 第45-46页 |
| ·Procedure for BNC | 第46页 |
| ·Procedure for Chinese Corpus | 第46页 |
| ·Procedure for Sample Analysis | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter 5 Results | 第48-66页 |
| ·Quantitative Results | 第48-58页 |
| ·BNC Data Analysis | 第48-50页 |
| ·CLEC Data Analysis | 第50-53页 |
| ·Some Characteristics of Ordering Distribution of Temporal Clauses in CLEC | 第53-54页 |
| ·EFL learners' Development Pattern of Ordering Distribution across Proficiency Level Within the Same Writing Task | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Influence of Writing Task on Ordering Distribution of Temporal Adverbial Clauses | 第56-57页 |
| ·EFL Learners' Development Pattern Concerning Temporal Adverbial Clauses Marked by Different Subordinators | 第57页 |
| ·Difference of Ordering Distribution between English and Chinese | 第57-58页 |
| ·Summary of Quantitative Results | 第58页 |
| ·Qualitative Analysis | 第58-66页 |
| ·Sample Analysis Based on Parsing Theory | 第59-60页 |
| ·Sample Analysis Based on Discourse Force | 第60-64页 |
| ·Sample Analysis Based on Semantic Force | 第64-65页 |
| ·Sample Analysis Based on Other Factors | 第65页 |
| ·Summary of Qualitative Analysis Results | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter 6 Discussions and Implications | 第66-72页 |
| ·Discussion of Results | 第66-69页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第69-70页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study and Suggestions for Further Research | 第70-72页 |
| Conclusion | 第72-74页 |
| References | 第74-77页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第77-78页 |
| Appendix A 攻读学位期间所发表的学位论文目录 | 第78-79页 |
| Appendix B 中文摘要 | 第79-81页 |
