| 中文摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第3-4页 |
| Abbreviations and symbols | 第4-7页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第7-14页 |
| 1．1 Purpose and significance of the paper | 第7-8页 |
| 1．2 The definition of wh-words | 第8-10页 |
| 1．3 Theoretical approaches | 第10-12页 |
| 1．4 Research methods and layout of the paper | 第12-14页 |
| CHAPTER 2 AN OVERVIEW OF WH-WORDS IN GENERAL ENGLISH AND T4 | 第14-69页 |
| 2．1 The survey of different views on clauses introduced by wh-words | 第14-23页 |
| 2．2 The features of wh-words in general English and T4 | 第23-69页 |
| 2．2．1 The special properties of wh-words as a class | 第23-25页 |
| 2．2．2 Selection of wh-words in different clauses | 第25-57页 |
| 2．2．3 Wh-word position in wh-clauses | 第57-61页 |
| 2．2．4 The semantic function of wh-words | 第61-64页 |
| 2．2．5 The syntactic function of wh-words | 第64-69页 |
| CHAPTER 3 DISTRIBUTION AND ANALYSIS OF WH-WORDS IN T4 | 第69-91页 |
| 3．1 Distribution of wh-words in T4 | 第69-71页 |
| 3．2 The distribution of wh-words in nominal clauses in T4 | 第71-78页 |
| 3．2．1 The distribution of what | 第73-74页 |
| 3．2．2 The distribution of why | 第74-75页 |
| 3．2．3 The distribution of how | 第75-76页 |
| 3．2．4 The distribution of where | 第76-77页 |
| 3．2．5 The distribution of who, whom, which and when taken as a whole | 第77-78页 |
| 3．3 Analysis of wh-words in nominal clauses in T4 | 第78-91页 |
| 3．3．1 The characteristics of who and whom | 第78-79页 |
| 3．3．2 The characteristics of which and whose | 第79-81页 |
| 3．3．3 The characteristics of what | 第81-83页 |
| 3．3．4 The characteristics of why | 第83-84页 |
| 3．3．5 The characteristics of how | 第84-87页 |
| 3．3．6 The characteristics of when | 第87-88页 |
| 3．3．7 The characteristics of where | 第88-90页 |
| 3．3．8 The characteristics of wh-words ending in-ever | 第90-91页 |
| CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION | 第91-95页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第95-96页 |
| References | 第96-99页 |
| Appendix | 第99-103页 |
