| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Abbreviation | 第11-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Motivation of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Objectives and Significance of the Study | 第13页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第13-15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第17-25页 |
| ·Definition of Existential Sentence | 第17-18页 |
| ·Definition of English Existential Sentence | 第17-18页 |
| ·Definition of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第18页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Existential Sentence（ES） | 第18-24页 |
| ·Descriptive Approach to ES | 第19-20页 |
| ·Generative Approach to ES | 第20-21页 |
| ·Functional Approach to ES | 第21-22页 |
| ·Cognitive Approach to ES | 第22-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation | 第25-30页 |
| ·Introduction of Iconicity | 第25-26页 |
| ·Principles of Iconicity | 第26-30页 |
| ·Sequence Iconicity | 第27页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity | 第27-28页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity | 第28-29页 |
| ·Markedness Iconicity | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter Three Syntactic Structures of Existential Sentence | 第30-42页 |
| ·Syntactic Structures of English Existential Sentence | 第30-32页 |
| ·There + be + NP + (Locative Phrase) + (Others) | 第30-32页 |
| ·LP + Verb + NP+ Others | 第32页 |
| ·Syntactic Structures of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第32-40页 |
| ·Part A (NP1) + Part B (Verb) + Part C (NP2) | 第33-37页 |
| ·Part A (NP1) + Part C (NP2) | 第37-38页 |
| ·Part B (Verb) + Part C (NP2) | 第38页 |
| ·Part C (NP2) | 第38页 |
| ·Other Special Types | 第38-40页 |
| ·Summary | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four Investigation of English and Chinese Existential Sentence from Semantic and Pragmatic Perspectives | 第42-50页 |
| ·Restrictions on Noun Phrase in Existential Sentence | 第42-44页 |
| ·Indefiniteness of NP in English Existential sentence | 第42-43页 |
| ·Indefiniteness of NP in Chinese Existential Sentence | 第43-44页 |
| ·Information Distribution of Existential Sentence | 第44-49页 |
| ·Information Distribution of English Existential Sentence | 第45页 |
| ·Information Distribution of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第45-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter Five Cognitive Analysis of Existential Sentence in English and Chinese from the Theory of Iconicity | 第50-77页 |
| ·Analysis of English Existential Sentence | 第50-58页 |
| ·Sequence Iconicity of English Existential Sentence | 第50-53页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity of English Existential Sentence | 第53-55页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity of English Existential Sentence | 第55-57页 |
| ·Markedness Iconicity of English Existential Sentence | 第57-58页 |
| ·Analysis of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第58-71页 |
| ·Sequence Iconicity of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第58-61页 |
| ·Quantity Iconicity of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第61-65页 |
| ·Distance Iconicity of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第65-68页 |
| ·Markedness Iconicity of Chinese Existential Sentence | 第68-71页 |
| ·Implication on Translation | 第71-74页 |
| ·Translation under Principles of Iconicity | 第71-73页 |
| ·Translated Structures from Chinese into English | 第73-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-77页 |
| ·The Similarities | 第74-75页 |
| ·The Differences | 第75-77页 |
| Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| Works Cited | 第79-83页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第83-84页 |
| Appendix: Cited Examples in Chinese Existential Sentences | 第84-90页 |
| Informative Chinese Abstract | 第90-92页 |
| Résumé and Publications since Entering the Program | 第92页 |
