| 英文摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abbreviations | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| 1．1 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY | 第8-9页 |
| 1．2 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY | 第9-10页 |
| 1．3 LAYOUT OF THIS PAPER | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter Two General Overview of Temporal Clauses | 第11-41页 |
| 2．1 DEFINITIONS OF TEMPORAL CLAUSES | 第11-14页 |
| 2．2 CLASSIFICATION OF TEMPORAL CLAUSES | 第14-20页 |
| 2．2．1 Finite, nonfmite and verbless temporal clauses | 第14-18页 |
| 2．2．2 Simple, compound and complex temporal clauses | 第18-20页 |
| 2．3 SYNTACTIC FUNCTION OF TEMPORAL CLAUSES | 第20-22页 |
| 2．4 SEMANTIC FUNCTION OF TEMPORAL CLAUSES | 第22-32页 |
| 2．4．1 Temporal clauses in temporal function | 第22-27页 |
| 2．4．2 Temporal clauses in mixed function | 第27-32页 |
| 2．5 CLASSIFICATION OF THE SUBORDINATORS IN THE TEMPORAL CLAUSES | 第32-41页 |
| 2．5．1 Classification of subordinators according to the forms | 第33-38页 |
| 2．5．2 Classification of subordinators according to the types of clauses introduced | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter Three Quantitative Analysis and Discussion of Temporal Clauses in T4 | 第41-87页 |
| 3．1 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL CLAUSES IN T4 IN COMPARISON WITH THE OTHER FIVE CORPORA | 第41-51页 |
| 3．1．1 Distribution and Frequency of Temporal Clauses in T4 in Comparison with the Other Five Corpora | 第41-43页 |
| 3．1．2 Distribution and Frequency of Finite and Abbreviated Temporal Clauses in Comparison with the Other Five Corpora | 第43-45页 |
| 3．1．3 Distribution and Frequency of Temporal Subordinators in T4 in Comparison with the Other Five Corpora | 第45-51页 |
| 3．2 DISCUSSION ON TEMPORAL CLAUSES IN T4 | 第51-87页 |
| 3．2．1 Quantitative analysis of finite temporal clauses in T4 | 第52-63页 |
| 3．2．2 Quantitative analysis of abbreviated temporal clauses in T4 | 第63-82页 |
| 3．2．3 Syntactic function of temporal clauses in T4 | 第82-84页 |
| 3．2．4 Structural analysis of temporal clauses in T4 | 第84-86页 |
| 3．2．5 Other features of temporal clauses in T4 | 第86-87页 |
| Chapter Four conclusion | 第87-90页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第90-91页 |
| References | 第91-93页 |
| Appendixes | 第93-99页 |
