| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| ·Motivations of the Study | 第11-14页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Methodology | 第15-17页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-30页 |
| ·Introduction | 第18页 |
| ·Studies of Suffixes from Different Approaches | 第18-23页 |
| ·The Formalist Approach | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Functionalist Approach | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Cognitive Approach | 第22-23页 |
| ·Studies of Chinese Suffix “子” | 第23-28页 |
| ·Studies of Suffix “子”on its Identification | 第23-24页 |
| ·Studies of Suffix “子”on its Meanings | 第24-26页 |
| ·Studies of Suffix “子”on its Etymology | 第26-27页 |
| ·Studies of Suffix “子”on its Classification | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第30-45页 |
| ·Introduction | 第30-31页 |
| ·An Overview of Researches on Grammaticalization Theory | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Process of Grammaticalization | 第34-37页 |
| ·Grammaticalization as a Cline | 第34-35页 |
| ·Gradience in Grammaticalization | 第35-36页 |
| ·Variation in Grammaticalization | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Mechanisms of Grammaticalzation | 第37-42页 |
| ·Manifestation in phonology | 第38页 |
| ·Manifestation in Semantics | 第38-40页 |
| ·Generalization of Meaning | 第39页 |
| ·Pragmatic Strengthening | 第39-40页 |
| ·Absorption of Meaning from Context | 第40页 |
| ·Manifestation in Morpho-syntax | 第40-42页 |
| ·Reanalysis | 第41-42页 |
| ·Analogy | 第42页 |
| ·The Explanatory Power of Grammaticalization Theory | 第42-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44-45页 |
| Chapter Four Suffix “子”and its Word-class Marking | 第45-72页 |
| ·Introduction | 第45页 |
| ·Grammaticalization from Content Word “子”to Suffix “子” | 第45-51页 |
| ·The Phonological Cline | 第46-48页 |
| ·The Semantic Cline | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Morphosyntactic Cline | 第49-51页 |
| ·Word-class Marking—A Capability of Gradience | 第51-61页 |
| ·Syntactic Shifting | 第53-58页 |
| ·Shifting from Verb to Noun | 第53-55页 |
| ·Shifting from Adjective to Noun | 第55-56页 |
| ·The Steps of Shifting in Cognition | 第56-57页 |
| ·A Case Study of “学子” | 第57-58页 |
| ·Syntactic Maintaining | 第58-61页 |
| ·Gradience in Agglutination | 第58-59页 |
| ·Analogy for its Productivity | 第59-61页 |
| ·Word-class Marking: A Capability of Variation | 第61-70页 |
| ·The Semantic Variation in Roots | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Types of Word-class Marking | 第62-65页 |
| ·De-nominal Marking | 第62-64页 |
| ·De-verbal Marking | 第64-65页 |
| ·Variation in Marked Word Classes: Quantifier | 第65-67页 |
| ·Variation in Syntactic Categories of “子” | 第67-70页 |
| ·Variation in Syntactic Constructions | 第68页 |
| ·Variation in Syntactic Status | 第68-70页 |
| ·Summary | 第70-72页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第72-75页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第72-73页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第73-74页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Study | 第74-75页 |
| References | 第75-80页 |
| Appendices | 第80-85页 |
| Appendix 1 Linguistic Evidence for the Semantic Cline Based on LCWCC | 第80页 |
| Appendix 2 The Semantic Domains of De-verbal Marking Based on LCWCC. | 第80页 |
| Appendix 3 The Semantic Domains of De-nominal Marking Based on LCWCC.. | 第80-81页 |
| Appendix 4 The Pattern of “verb +子”Based on LCWCC | 第81-82页 |
| Appendix 5 The Pattern of “adjective +子”Based on LCWCC | 第82页 |
| Appendix 6 The Quantifiers Derived from Suffix “子”Based on LCWCC | 第82-83页 |
| Appendix 7 The Pattern of “noun +子”Based on LCWCC | 第83-85页 |
