| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-7页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| ·Overview | 第7-8页 |
| ·Purpose of this thesis | 第8-9页 |
| ·Organization of this thesis | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter Two A prototypical perspective to the relationship of “Englishes” | 第10-21页 |
| ·A prototypical perspective to four terms | 第10-14页 |
| ·Chinese English and China English | 第10-11页 |
| ·Standard English and Nonstandard English | 第11-12页 |
| ·A prototypical perspective to the relationship of four terms | 第12-14页 |
| ·The viewpoints of the characteristics of SSCE | 第14-17页 |
| ·Short sentences and simple sentences | 第14-15页 |
| ·Frontal adverbial modifiers | 第15-16页 |
| ·Passive structure inferiority | 第16-17页 |
| ·Anticipatory it deficiency | 第17页 |
| ·Corpus design | 第17-21页 |
| ·Representativeness of the corpus | 第18页 |
| ·Size of the corpus | 第18-19页 |
| ·Questions and tools | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three A Quantitative Analysis of the characteristics of SSCE | 第21-33页 |
| ·Analysis of sentence length and use of subordination | 第21-24页 |
| ·Analysis of adverbial modifier positioning | 第24-27页 |
| ·Analysis of frequency of two specific sentence patterns | 第27-29页 |
| ·Discussion | 第29-33页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第33-36页 |
| ·A summary of the analysis | 第33-34页 |
| ·Implications | 第34-36页 |
| Bibliography | 第36-38页 |
