| 英文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abbreviations | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ． General Introduction | 第8-14页 |
| 1．1 Significance of Linguistic Studies on Marine Engineering English | 第8-10页 |
| 1．2 Aim of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| 1．3 Method of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| 1．4 Layout of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ． A Brief Overview of Apposition | 第14-47页 |
| 2．1 General Historical Views on Apposition | 第14-20页 |
| 2．2 Classification of Apposition | 第20-26页 |
| 2．2．1 Full and Partial Apposition | 第20-21页 |
| 2．2．2 Strict and Weak Apposition | 第21-22页 |
| 2．2．3 Restrictive and Non-restrictive Apposition | 第22-26页 |
| 2．3 Appositional Constructions | 第26-41页 |
| 2．3．1 The Construction of Strict Apposition | 第26-29页 |
| 2．3．2 The Construction of Weak Apposition | 第29-30页 |
| 2．3．3 Apposition-like Constructions | 第30-31页 |
| 2．3．4 Other Appositional Constructions | 第31-33页 |
| 2．3．5 Comparison between Apposition and Other Constructions | 第33-35页 |
| 2．3．6 Appositive Clauses | 第35-41页 |
| 2．4 Functions of Apposition | 第41-47页 |
| 2．4．1 Potential Syntactic Functions of Apposition | 第41页 |
| 2．4．2 Semantic Functions of Strict Non-restrictive Apposition | 第41-47页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ． Quantitative Analyses and Discussion of Apposition in MEE | 第47-90页 |
| 3．1 Quantitative Analyses of Marked Appositives and Appositive Clauses Introduced by That in the Six Corpora | 第47-71页 |
| 3．1．1 Quantitative Analyses of Marked Appositives | 第48-59页 |
| 3．1．2 Analyses of Appositive Clauses Introduced by That | 第59-62页 |
| 3．1．3 Semantic Analyses of Strict Non-restrictive Apposition in the Six Corpora | 第62-71页 |
| 3．2 Discussion of Marked Apposition in MEE | 第71-90页 |
| 3．2．1 Discussion on the Symactic Structures of Marked Apposition and That-appositive Clauses in MEE | 第71-80页 |
| 3．2．2 Discussion on the Semantic Relations of Strict Non-restrictive Marked Apposition in MEE | 第80-87页 |
| 3．2．3 Non-restrictive Appositives without Indicators in MEE | 第87-88页 |
| 3．2．4 Apposition-like Constructions in MEE | 第88-90页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ． Conclusions | 第90-92页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第92-93页 |
| References | 第93-94页 |
| Appendix | 第94-102页 |
