| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter 1 An Introduction to Functional Categories and Grammaticalization | 第16-35页 |
| ·An Introduction to Functional Categories | 第16-25页 |
| ·Functional Categories vs. Lexical Categories | 第16-19页 |
| ·Three Main Types of Functional Categories | 第19-25页 |
| ·An Introduction to Grammaticalization | 第25-31页 |
| ·Definitions of Grammaticalization | 第25-28页 |
| ·Characteristics of Grammaticalization | 第28-31页 |
| ·Summary | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter 2 The Theoretical Framework | 第35-55页 |
| ·The Principles and Parameters Theory | 第35-39页 |
| ·Basic Ideas | 第35-37页 |
| ·Its Application to the Cross-linguistic Variation | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Language Acquisition Hypothesis | 第39-42页 |
| ·A Model of Language Acquisition | 第39-41页 |
| ·An Assumption Based on the Modal | 第41-42页 |
| ·A Modified Checking Theory: the Interface Interpretability | 第42-52页 |
| ·The Checking Theory: a Problematic Theory | 第43-48页 |
| ·The Checking Theory | 第43-47页 |
| ·Problems Existing in the Checking Theory | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Interface Interpretability and its Applications | 第48-51页 |
| ·The Interface Interpretability | 第48-49页 |
| ·Applications | 第49-51页 |
| ·An Assumption Based on the Interface Interpretability | 第51-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter 3 Grammaticalization: a Challenge to Formal Linguistics | 第55-68页 |
| ·PPT and Language Change | 第55-57页 |
| ·Description of the Challenge | 第55-56页 |
| ·A Response to the Challenge and an Assumption | 第56-57页 |
| ·Language Change vs. Language Acquisition | 第57-60页 |
| ·Description of the Challenge | 第57-59页 |
| ·A Response to the Challenge | 第59-60页 |
| ·The Tendency of Grammaticalization vs. the Arbitrariness of Parameter setting | 第60-62页 |
| ·Description of the Challenge | 第60页 |
| ·A Response to the Challenge | 第60-62页 |
| ·A Basic Assumption about Grammaticalization | 第62-64页 |
| ·A General Account of Grammaticalization | 第64-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-68页 |
| Chapter 4 Case Analyses of Grammaticalization | 第68-94页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of English Modals | 第68-74页 |
| ·Modals in OE vs. Modals in NE | 第68-70页 |
| ·Auxiliaries out of Normal Verbs | 第70-74页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of the English Complementizer that | 第74-81页 |
| ·The Demonstrative that vs. the Complementizer that | 第74-76页 |
| ·The Complementizer that out of the Demonstrative that | 第76-81页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of Determiners the and a(n) | 第81-90页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of the Determiner the | 第81-86页 |
| ·The Article the vs. the Demonstrative that | 第81-83页 |
| ·The Article the out of its Demonstrative Origins | 第83-86页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of the Determiner a(n) | 第86-90页 |
| ·Summary | 第90-94页 |
| Conclusion | 第94-97页 |
| Notes | 第97-100页 |
| Bibliography | 第100-108页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第108-109页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间主要研究成果 | 第109页 |
