| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Background of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the 19~(th) Century American Novels | 第11页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to the 20~(th) Century American Novels | 第11-12页 |
| ·Purpose and Significance of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第13页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Overview of the Study of the Subjunctive | 第14-21页 |
| ·Mood | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Definition of Mood | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Mood System of English | 第15-16页 |
| ·A General Study of the Subjunctive from Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches | 第16-17页 |
| ·The English Subjunctive versus the French Subjunctive | 第16页 |
| ·The English Subjunctive versus the Latin Subjunctive | 第16-17页 |
| ·The English Subjunctive versus the Classical Greek Subjunctive | 第17页 |
| ·Review of the Miscellaneous Scholarly Opinions on Subjunctive | 第17-21页 |
| ·The Disappearance of the Subjunctive Mood | 第18-19页 |
| ·The School of Neutrality | 第19页 |
| ·The Vitality of the Subjunctive Mood | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework of the English Subjunctive | 第21-39页 |
| ·The Definition of the English Subjunctive | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Classification of the Subjunctive | 第22-28页 |
| ·The Present Subjunctive | 第22-26页 |
| ·The Past Subjunctive | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Syntactic Structures of the Subjunctive | 第28-39页 |
| ·The Subjunctive in Dependent Clauses | 第28页 |
| ·The Subjunctive in Conditional Clauses | 第28-35页 |
| ·The Subjunctive in Concessive Clauses | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Subjunctive in Clauses of Hypothetical Similarity | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Subjunctive in Clauses of Purpose | 第37页 |
| ·The Subjunctive in Clauses of Time | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第39-43页 |
| ·Building of the Corpora of NANC and TANC | 第39页 |
| ·Tools and Software | 第39-41页 |
| ·Data Sampling and Processing in NANC and TANC | 第41页 |
| ·Manual Work | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter 5 Analysis and Discussion of the Data | 第43-66页 |
| ·Frequency and Distribution of the Subjunctive in NANC | 第43-47页 |
| ·Frequency and Distribution of the Subjunctive in TANC | 第47-51页 |
| ·Comparison on the Subjunctive between NANC and TANC | 第51-66页 |
| ·Comparison on the be-subjunctive between NANC and TANC | 第54-59页 |
| ·Comparison of the Were-Subjunctive between NANC and TANC | 第59-66页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusions | 第66-68页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第66-67页 |
| ·Implications | 第67页 |
| ·Limitations | 第67-68页 |
| References | 第68-71页 |
| Appendixes | 第71-83页 |
| Publication | 第83-84页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第84-85页 |
| Resume | 第85页 |
