| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter 1: Nominal in Existential Sentences: An Overview | 第10-28页 |
| ·Characteristics of Existential Sentences | 第10-15页 |
| ·Structural Properties | 第11-12页 |
| ·Semantic and Discourse Functional Properties | 第12-15页 |
| ·The Existential Proposition | 第15-19页 |
| ·Analyses of the Definiteness Restriction | 第19-24页 |
| ·Researches on Definiteness Effecte in the Chineses Existential Sentences | 第24-28页 |
| ·The Definiteness Effect in Chinese You Existential Sentences | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter 2: Definiteness Effect on NPs in English Existential Sentences | 第28-37页 |
| ·Introduction | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Proposal | 第30-37页 |
| ·Semantic Incorporation | 第30-32页 |
| ·Function Composition | 第32-33页 |
| ·Coverage | 第33-37页 |
| Chapter 3: Definiteness Effect on NPs in Chinese Existential You-Sentences | 第37-50页 |
| ·Existential You-Sentences in Chinese | 第37-38页 |
| ·Distribution of the Definiteness Effect | 第38-42页 |
| ·You-Sentences: DE Effect When Expletive Subject is Empty | 第40-42页 |
| ·On Deriving Definiteness Effects | 第42-44页 |
| ·Focus Particles and the Definiteness Effect | 第44-46页 |
| ·The Post-you NP as a Member of a Set | 第46-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| References | 第52-58页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第58-59页 |
| Appendix A: Cited examples in Chinese characters | 第59-62页 |
| Informative Chinese Abstract | 第62-64页 |
| Résuméand Publications since Entering the Program | 第64页 |
