| 中文摘要 | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter 1: Introduction | 第15-18页 |
| ·Background to the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significances of studying tense in FHCC | 第16-17页 |
| ·Data collection | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter 2: Literature Review | 第18-28页 |
| ·Aristotle’s tense model and Thrax’s tense model | 第18-20页 |
| ·Reichenbach’s tense model | 第20-23页 |
| ·Comrie’s tense model | 第23-26页 |
| ·The contributions of Reichenbach and Comrie to Halliday | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Halliday’s Tense Framework | 第28-44页 |
| ·Preliminaries | 第28-31页 |
| ·Tense being at the rank of verbal group | 第28-29页 |
| ·Some terms in Halliday’s tense framework | 第29-31页 |
| ·Halliday’s tense model | 第31-44页 |
| ·Primary tense and secondary tense | 第31-34页 |
| ·Corresponding definition of tense within SFG | 第34-36页 |
| ·Tense being grammatical resource | 第34页 |
| ·Three-Division principle | 第34-36页 |
| ·Recursive principle | 第36页 |
| ·Stop rules in Halliday tense framework | 第36-38页 |
| ·Temporal structure of each tense | 第38-44页 |
| ·Temporal structure in primary tense | 第38-39页 |
| ·Temporal structure in secondary tense | 第39-40页 |
| ·Temporal structure in primary-secondary tense | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter 4 Rethought on Halliday’s Tense Model | 第44-54页 |
| ·Four hypotheses about tense in Fhcc outside SFG | 第44-48页 |
| ·The formal sequence of tense hypothesis | 第44-46页 |
| ·The absolute deixis hypothesis | 第46-47页 |
| ·The relative time hypothesis | 第47页 |
| ·The relative or absolute time hypothesis | 第47-48页 |
| ·Limitations of Halliday’s tense framework | 第48-49页 |
| ·Some new assumptions about tense in Fhcc within SFG | 第49-54页 |
| 4. 3.1. Rethought on types of Halliday’s model | 第50-52页 |
| ·An Alternative hypothesis about tense in Fhcc from the perspective of SFG | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 5 Tense in Temporal Dependence | 第54-69页 |
| ·Temporal dependence | 第54-55页 |
| ·Reference time of “secondary-finite tense” | 第55-57页 |
| ·Three- division principle | 第57-66页 |
| ·The reference time of secondary-finite tense referring to a past time | 第58-63页 |
| ·Anteriority | 第58-60页 |
| ·Simultaneity | 第60-62页 |
| ·Posteriority | 第62-63页 |
| ·The reference time of secondary-finite tense referring to a present time | 第63-64页 |
| ·The reference time of secondary-finite tense referring to a future time | 第64-66页 |
| ·Anteriority | 第64-65页 |
| ·Simultaneity | 第65页 |
| ·Posteriority | 第65-66页 |
| ·Recursive principle | 第66-69页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第69-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-77页 |
