| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| 1.1 Previous studies on numeral cardinals | 第12-15页 |
| 1.1.1 Specifier-head relation | 第12-14页 |
| 1.1.2 Head-complement relation | 第14-15页 |
| 1.1.3 Two Structures of the Numeral -Noun Constructions | 第15页 |
| 1.2 Studies on numerals in languages spoken in China | 第15-17页 |
| 1.3 Studies on complex cardinals | 第17-19页 |
| 1.4 Outline of the thesis | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Against Ionin & Matushansky’ s proposal on complex cardinals | 第20-55页 |
| 2.1 Against complex cardinals as frozen long words | 第20-21页 |
| 2.2 Ionin & Matushansky’ s proposal on complex cardinals | 第21-22页 |
| 2.3 Counter-evidence: Mandarin Chinese and Min Dialect | 第22-30页 |
| 2.3.1 ‘二’ and ‘两’ in Mandarin Chinese | 第22-25页 |
| 2.3.2 ‘一’ ‘二’ in Huangliu Dialect of Hainan Province | 第25-28页 |
| 2.3.3 ‘一’ ‘蜀 ’and ‘二’ ‘两’ in Ningde dialect of Fujian Province | 第28-30页 |
| 2.4 Counter-evidence: Minority languages in China | 第30-54页 |
| 2.4.1 Numerals in Naxi Language | 第30-36页 |
| 2.4.2 Numerals in Dai Language | 第36-38页 |
| 2.4.3 Numerals in Dong Language | 第38-40页 |
| 2.4.4 Numerals in Li Language | 第40-42页 |
| 2.4.5 Numerals in Mulam Language | 第42-45页 |
| 2.4.6 Numerals in Jingpo Language | 第45-46页 |
| 2.4.7 Numerals in Buyi Language | 第46-51页 |
| 2.4.8 Numerals in Bai Language | 第51-54页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第54-55页 |
| Chapter 3 Additional arguments against Ionin & Matushansky’ s proposal oncomplex cardinals | 第55-59页 |
| 3.1 Problem with the syntax of coordination in Ionin & Matushansky’ s proposal | 第55-56页 |
| 3.2 Problems with arithmetical operations | 第56-57页 |
| 3.3 Problems with prepositional numerals | 第57-58页 |
| 3.4 Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Chapter 4 The syntactic structure of complex cardinals in Mandarin Chinese | 第59-64页 |
| 4.1 Complex cardinals as phrasal constituents | 第59-60页 |
| 4.2 ‘十 万’ ‘百 万’ ‘千 万’ in Mandarin Chinese | 第60-61页 |
| 4.3 Advantages of treating complex cardinals as phrasal cons tituents | 第61-62页 |
| 4.4 Summary | 第62-64页 |
| Conclusion | 第64-65页 |
| References | 第65-68页 |
| Appendix详细中文摘要 | 第68-71页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第71页 |
