| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| 感谢信 | 第6-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| NOTATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS | 第11-12页 |
| CONTENTS | 第12-15页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第15-27页 |
| ·Background | 第15-16页 |
| ·Definition and Scope of ESs | 第16-21页 |
| ·Definition and Scope of Chinese ESs | 第16-19页 |
| ·Definition and Scope of English ESs | 第19-21页 |
| ·Problems in Analyzing ESs | 第21-25页 |
| ·DE | 第21-23页 |
| ·Argument Structure of Existential Verbs | 第23-25页 |
| ·Subject of ESs | 第25页 |
| ·Significance | 第25-26页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第26-27页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第27-36页 |
| ·Subject of English ESs | 第27-30页 |
| ·Postverbal NP-subject hypothesis | 第27-28页 |
| ·Expletive-subject Hypothesis | 第28-29页 |
| ·locative-subject hypothesis | 第29页 |
| ·Subject-splitting Hypothesis | 第29-30页 |
| ·Subject of Chinese ESs | 第30-35页 |
| ·Postverbal NP-subject Analysis | 第31页 |
| ·Subjectless Analysis | 第31-33页 |
| ·Locative-subject Analysis | 第33-34页 |
| ·Subject-splitting Analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-36页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR | 第36-50页 |
| ·An introduction to Lexical-Functional Grammar | 第36-44页 |
| ·Introduction | 第36-37页 |
| ·Parallel Structures | 第37-43页 |
| ·C-structure | 第37-39页 |
| ·F-structure | 第39-42页 |
| ·A-structure | 第42-43页 |
| ·Correspondence between Parallel Structures | 第43-44页 |
| ·Lexical Mapping Theory | 第44-49页 |
| ·Background | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Theory of Argument-structure | 第45-48页 |
| ·Mapping A-Structure to Syntactic Functions | 第48-49页 |
| ·Summary | 第49-50页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR AN LMT ANALYSIS OF EXISTENTIAL SENTENCES IN ENGLISH | 第50-62页 |
| ·Argument Structure of LP+Ve+NP | 第50-51页 |
| ·Lexical Mapping for LP+Ve+NP | 第51-55页 |
| ·Lexical Mapping for There+Ve+NP(+LP) | 第55-61页 |
| ·On the Interpretation of there,Expletive or Abstract Locative? | 第55-59页 |
| ·Expletive Account of there | 第55-57页 |
| ·Locative Account of there | 第57-59页 |
| ·Lexical Mapping for There+Ve+NP+(LP) | 第59-61页 |
| ·Summary | 第61-62页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE AN LMT ANALYSIS OF EXISTENTIAL SENTENCES IN CHINESE | 第62-84页 |
| ·Chinese Locative Phrases | 第62-63页 |
| ·Locative Phrase as Subject in Chinese ESs | 第63-66页 |
| ·Can Locative NP act as Subject in Chinese ESs? | 第63-65页 |
| ·Can Locative PP Act as Subject of Chinese ESs? | 第65-66页 |
| ·TP as Subject in TP+Ve+NP? | 第66-69页 |
| ·Lexical Mapping for LP+Ve+NP | 第69-73页 |
| ·Lexical Mapping for LP+NP | 第73-82页 |
| ·Characteristics for LP and NP | 第73-77页 |
| ·Two analyses for LP+NP | 第77-78页 |
| ·Lexical Mapping for LP+NP | 第78-82页 |
| ·Summary | 第82-84页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第84-86页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第84页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第84-86页 |
| REFERENCES | 第86-96页 |
| PUBLICATIONS | 第96页 |
