| Acknowledgemenet s | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-12页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-20页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第20-40页 |
| ·Traditional Analysis of Case | 第20-27页 |
| ·The Greek and Roman Tradition | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Indian Tradition | 第22-25页 |
| ·The Arabic Tradition | 第25-27页 |
| ·Modern Approaches to Case Study | 第27-38页 |
| ·Fillmore's Case Grammar | 第28-30页 |
| ·Later Development of Case Theories | 第30-38页 |
| ·Case in Relational Grammar | 第31-37页 |
| ·Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar | 第37-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Preliminaries | 第40-52页 |
| ·An Overview of Case in English | 第40-44页 |
| ·Definition of Case | 第40-42页 |
| ·Case and Case Forms | 第42-43页 |
| ·Case and Grammatical Relations | 第43-44页 |
| ·Semantic Roles and Grammatical Relations | 第44页 |
| ·Historical Syntax | 第44-50页 |
| ·Historical Syntax in Modern Linguistics | 第45-46页 |
| ·Mechanisms of Syntactic Change | 第46-50页 |
| ·Reanalysis | 第46-48页 |
| ·Extension | 第48页 |
| ·Borrowing | 第48-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Four Exploration of the Evolution of Case in English | 第52-71页 |
| ·Case Forms of Nouns,Personal Pronouns and Adjectives in Old English | 第53-57页 |
| ·Case Forms of Nouns in OE | 第53-55页 |
| ·Case Forms of Personal Pronouns in OE | 第55-56页 |
| ·Case Forms of Adjectives in OE | 第56-57页 |
| ·Case Forms of Nouns,Personal Pronouns and Adjectives in Middle English | 第57-60页 |
| ·Case Forms of Nouns in ME | 第57-58页 |
| ·Case Forms of Personal Pronouns in ME | 第58-59页 |
| ·Case Forms of Adjectives in ME | 第59-60页 |
| ·Case Forms in Modern English | 第60-63页 |
| ·Case Forms of Nouns in ModE | 第60-61页 |
| ·Case Forms of Personal Pronouns in ModE | 第61-63页 |
| ·Explanation of the Evolution of Case Forms | 第63-69页 |
| ·Framework of the Present Study | 第64-66页 |
| ·Explanation | 第66-69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-71页 |
| Chapter Five Historical Syntactic Account for the Evolution of Case in English | 第71-90页 |
| ·Case Changes in Impersonal and Personal Constructions | 第71-79页 |
| ·Hierarchy of Grammatical Relations and Structural Case Marking | 第72-73页 |
| ·The Evolution of Case from Impersonal Constructions to Personal Constructions | 第73-76页 |
| ·The Evolution of Case in Passives | 第76-79页 |
| ·Case Changes in the Replacement of Indirect Passives by Direct Passives | 第76-78页 |
| ·Case Changes in the Replacement of Dative-Fronted Passives by Recipient Passives | 第78-79页 |
| ·Issues on Application of Mechanisms of Syntactic Change | 第79-80页 |
| ·Loss of Case Marking and Word Order | 第80-83页 |
| ·Causes for the Evolution of Case in English | 第83-87页 |
| ·General Causes for Syntactic Change | 第83-84页 |
| ·Causes for Evolution of Case Inflections | 第84-86页 |
| ·Causes for Evolution of Case on Deep Level | 第86-87页 |
| ·Language Change and Typology | 第87-89页 |
| ·Summary | 第89-90页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第90-92页 |
| ·Findings of the Study | 第90页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第90-91页 |
| ·Limitations and Prospects for Further Research | 第91-92页 |
| References | 第92-95页 |
