封面
封面
中文摘要
英文摘要
目录
Abbreviation
Introduction
0.1 Motivation of the Study
0.2 Objectives and Significance of the Study
0.3 Research Methodology
0.4 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter One Literature Review
1.1 Definition of Existential Sentence
1.2 Previous Studies of Existential Sentence \(ES\)
1.3 Summary
Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation
2.1 Introduction of Iconicity
2.2 Principles of Iconicity
Chapter Three Syntactic Structures of Existential Sentence
3.1 Syntactic Structures of English Existential Sentence
3.2 Syntactic Structures of Chinese Existential Sentence
3.3 Summary
Chapter Four Investigation of English and Chinese Existential Sentences from Semantic and Pragmatic perspectives
4.1 Restrictions on Noun Phrases in Existential Sentence
4.2 Information Distribution of Existential Sentence
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Cognitive Analysis of Existential Sentence in English and Chinese from the Theory of Iconicity
5.1 Analysis of English Existential Sentence
5.2 Analysis of Chinese Existential Sentence
5.3 Implication on Translation
5.4 Summary
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgements
Appendix:Cited Examples in Chinese Existential Sentences
Informative Chinese Abstract
Résuméand Publications since Entering the Program