| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘 要 | 第7-12页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| ·Research origin, purposes and questions | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第13页 |
| ·Research significance | 第13-14页 |
| ·Thesis arrangement | 第14-15页 |
| 2 Different Approaches to Language and Grammar | 第15-38页 |
| ·The formalist approach | 第15-28页 |
| ·Philosophical foundations | 第17-21页 |
| ·Commitments to language and grammar | 第21-27页 |
| ·Varieties of the formalist approach | 第27-28页 |
| ·The functionalist approach | 第28-36页 |
| ·Philosophical foundations | 第31-32页 |
| ·Commitments to language and grammar | 第32页 |
| ·Varieties of the functionalist approach | 第32-36页 |
| ·Compatibility of the two approaches | 第36-38页 |
| 3 Iconicity in Language and Grammar | 第38-66页 |
| ·Defining iconicity | 第38-46页 |
| ·Peirce’s icon-index-symbol trichotomy | 第38-40页 |
| ·Iconicity and arbitrariness | 第40-42页 |
| ·Iconicity, motivation and economy | 第42-45页 |
| ·Iconicity in the present dissertation | 第45-46页 |
| ·Iconicity: a property of language | 第46-53页 |
| ·Cognitive foundations | 第47-50页 |
| ·Pioneers in the study of linguistic iconicity | 第50-53页 |
| ·Types of iconicity | 第53-62页 |
| ·Iconicity of distance | 第53-55页 |
| ·Iconicity of linearity (Sequential order) | 第55-58页 |
| ·Iconicity of symmetry | 第58-59页 |
| ·Iconicity of asymmetry | 第59-60页 |
| ·Iconicity of quantity | 第60-61页 |
| ·Iconicity of categorization | 第61-62页 |
| ·Studies of iconicity within generative grammar | 第62-66页 |
| 4 Generative Grammar: An Iconic Perspective (I) | 第66-93页 |
| ·X-bar theory and distance iconicity | 第67-74页 |
| ·X-bar theory | 第67-68页 |
| ·N-Bar: Adjuncts, Complements and distance iconicity | 第68-71页 |
| ·V-Bar: Complements and distance iconicity | 第71-74页 |
| ·Theta theory and distance iconicity | 第74-82页 |
| ·Theta theory and thematic Proto-Roles | 第74-77页 |
| ·Proto-Roles and Object/Oblique alternation | 第77-79页 |
| ·Thematic variation and distance iconicity | 第79-82页 |
| ·D-Structure, iconicity of categorization and distance | 第82-85页 |
| ·D-Structure | 第82-83页 |
| ·Iconicity in D-Structure | 第83-85页 |
| ·S-Structure, c-command and iconicity | 第85-88页 |
| ·S-Structure | 第85-86页 |
| ·C-command and asymmetric iconicity | 第86-88页 |
| ·Logical Form and iconicity | 第88-93页 |
| ·Logical Form | 第88-90页 |
| ·Iconicity in logical Form | 第90-93页 |
| 5 Generative Grammar: An Iconic Perspective (II) | 第93-140页 |
| ·DP hypothesis, NP internal order and linear iconicity | 第93-98页 |
| ·DP Hypothesis | 第93-94页 |
| ·Referential Precedence, linearity and NP internal word order | 第94-98页 |
| ·Coordination and symmetric iconicity | 第98-108页 |
| ·Coordinate constructions | 第98-99页 |
| ·Constraints on Coordinate Constructions | 第99-101页 |
| ·VP-internal subject hypothesis and coordination | 第101-103页 |
| ·Linear Correspondence Axiom and coordination | 第103-105页 |
| ·Iconicity in coordination | 第105-108页 |
| ·Double-object constructions and iconicity | 第108-120页 |
| ·Larson’s approach | 第108-110页 |
| ·A Minimalist Approach | 第110-115页 |
| ·Iconic approaches | 第115-118页 |
| ·Compatibility of the different approaches | 第118-120页 |
| ·Resultatives and temporal iconicity | 第120-128页 |
| ·Resultative constructions | 第120-121页 |
| ·Syntactic constructions of resultatives: The ternary analysis | 第121-124页 |
| ·VP-Shell and Minimalist Program | 第124-127页 |
| ·Temporal iconicity in resultatives | 第127-128页 |
| ·Minimalist Program and iconicity | 第128-140页 |
| ·The Minimalist Program | 第128-130页 |
| ·A Unitarianist Theory of Semantico-Phonetic Form | 第130-140页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第140-152页 |
| ·Two approaches revisited—convergences and divergences | 第140-145页 |
| ·Iconicity—a motivating power of language evolution | 第145-149页 |
| ·Major findings of the present research | 第149-150页 |
| ·Limitations of the present research and suggestions for further study | 第150-152页 |
| References | 第152-171页 |
