| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·Historical Review | 第11-14页 |
| ·Objective and Organization of this Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Main Facets of Grammaticalization | 第16-25页 |
| ·Three Characteristics of Grammaticalization | 第16-20页 |
| ·Unidirectionality | 第16-17页 |
| ·Nondiscreteness | 第17-20页 |
| ·Gradualness | 第20页 |
| ·Two Main Mechanisms in Grammaticalization | 第20-25页 |
| ·Reanalysis | 第21-22页 |
| ·Analogy | 第22-24页 |
| ·Different Effects of Reanalysis and Analogy | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter Three Some Principles of Grammaticalization | 第25-31页 |
| ·Layering | 第25-26页 |
| ·Divergence | 第26-27页 |
| ·Persistence | 第27-29页 |
| ·Decategorialization | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four Semantic Change in Grammaticalization | 第31-42页 |
| ·The Role of Meaning Change in Grammaticalization | 第31-32页 |
| ·Characteristics of Input for Grammaticalization | 第32-33页 |
| ·Cognition and Semantic Change | 第33-36页 |
| ·Language and Cognition | 第33-35页 |
| ·Metaphor and Semantic Change | 第35-36页 |
| ·Communication and Semantic Change | 第36-39页 |
| ·Communication and Pragmatic Inference | 第36-38页 |
| ·Pragmatic Inference and Semantic Change | 第38-39页 |
| ·Controversy About the Semantic Change in Grammaticalization | 第39-40页 |
| ·Paths of Semantic Change in Grammaticalization | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Five Case Studies | 第42-56页 |
| ·The Development of Aspect | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Chinese Aspect Marker le | 第42-43页 |
| ·The English Perfect have+done | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Development of Modality | 第45-48页 |
| ·The Development of Emerging English Modals want to and have to | 第45-48页 |
| ·The Development of Chinese Modal de | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Grammaticalization of Pragmatic Markers | 第49-50页 |
| ·Well | 第49-50页 |
| ·Besides | 第50页 |
| ·The Development of Connectives | 第50-53页 |
| ·The Concessive while | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Causal since | 第52-53页 |
| ·The Grammaticalization of let's and I think in Present-day English | 第53-56页 |
| ·Let's | 第53-54页 |
| ·I Think | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion and Implication | 第56-59页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第56-57页 |
| ·Implication | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-65页 |
| Abbreviations | 第65页 |
