| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| Chapter 1 An Introduction to That and Grammaticalization | 第18-46页 |
| ·Uses of That | 第18-27页 |
| ·As a Demonstrative Pronoun | 第19-23页 |
| ·As a Clause Introducer | 第23-26页 |
| ·As an Adverb | 第26-27页 |
| ·An Overview of Grammaticalization | 第27-46页 |
| ·Definitions of Grammaticalization | 第28-31页 |
| ·Characteristics of Grammaticalization | 第31-35页 |
| ·Two Approaches to Grammaticalization | 第35-46页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework | 第46-69页 |
| ·Functional Categories | 第46-55页 |
| ·Three Main Types of Functional Categories | 第47-52页 |
| ·Syntactic Property of Functional Categories | 第52-55页 |
| ·Parameters | 第55-60页 |
| ·Properties of Parameters | 第55-57页 |
| ·Parameter Setting and Language Change | 第57-60页 |
| ·The Interface Interpretability Theory | 第60-69页 |
| ·Basic Ideas | 第62-64页 |
| ·Its Application to Grammaticalization | 第64-69页 |
| Chapter 3 Clause Introducer That as a Complementizer from aDemonstrative | 第69-99页 |
| ·Syntactic Status of the English Clause Introducer That | 第69-78页 |
| ·Linguistic Property of the Complementizer That | 第70-71页 |
| ·That in Noun Clauses | 第71-73页 |
| ·That in Relative Clauses | 第73-78页 |
| ·Demonstrative That vs. Complementizer That | 第78-83页 |
| ·Phonological Aspect | 第78-79页 |
| ·Morphological Aspect | 第79-80页 |
| ·Syntactic Aspect | 第80-81页 |
| ·Semantic Aspect | 第81-83页 |
| ·Grammaticalization of That | 第83-99页 |
| ·Diachronic Process of the Grammaticalization of That | 第84-91页 |
| ·Motivation and Mechanism of the Grammaticalization of That | 第91-94页 |
| ·Path of the Grammaticalization of That | 第94-99页 |
| Conclusion | 第99-101页 |
| Notes | 第101-103页 |
| Bibliography | 第103-108页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第108-110页 |
| 攻读学位期间主要的研究成果目录 | 第110页 |
