| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Related Notions | 第9-11页 |
| ·The Topic/Comment Division | 第9-10页 |
| ·The Subject/Predicate Division | 第10页 |
| ·The Theme/Rheme Division | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research Questions and Research Purpose | 第11-12页 |
| ·Format of the Thesis | 第12页 |
| ·Summary | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-21页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13页 |
| ·Different Views on Topic | 第13-17页 |
| ·Views on Topic by Structural Approach | 第13-14页 |
| ·Views on Topic by Functional Approach | 第14-16页 |
| ·Views on Topic by Formalist Approach | 第16-17页 |
| ·Reviews on the Relationship between Discourse and Syntax | 第17-20页 |
| ·Constraints Put on Syntactic Structure by Discourse | 第18页 |
| ·Constraints Put on Sentence Patterns and the Use of Their Variations by Discourse | 第18-20页 |
| ·Summary | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Three The Syntactic Status of Chinese Topic | 第21-51页 |
| ·Introduction | 第21页 |
| ·The Grammaticalization of Topic from a Discourse Element to a Syntactic Element | 第21-34页 |
| ·The Discourse Function of Topic | 第23-25页 |
| ·The Prototypical Meaning of Topic | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Grammaticalization of Chinese Topic | 第27-30页 |
| ·Two Typological Features of Chinese | 第30-34页 |
| ·The Topic-Prominent Nature in Chinese | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Discourse-Configurational Nature in Chinese | 第32-34页 |
| ·Chinese Topic and Subject | 第34-50页 |
| ·Characterization of Chinese Topic | 第35-39页 |
| ·Characterization of Chinese Subject | 第39-45页 |
| ·Comparison of Chinese Topic and Subject | 第45-50页 |
| ·Comparison of Topic and Subject from the Angle of Grammaticalization | 第45-48页 |
| ·Comparison of Topic and Subject from the Angle of Constitution VS Realization | 第48-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-57页 |
| 在校期间的研究成果及发表的学术论文 | 第57页 |
