声明
致谢
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
1.2 Purpose of the Study
1.3 Significance of the Study
1.4 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2. 1 Dependency Grammar
2.2 Syntactic Complexity
2.3 Input Hypothesis
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Participants
3.3 Procedures of Data Collection
3.4 Construction of the Treebank
3.5 Data Analysis
Chapter Four Some Quantitative Features of Dependency Grammar in L2 Writings
4.1. Developmental Features of Mean Dependency Distance
4.2 Developmental Features of Probability Distribution of Dependency Distance
4.3 Developmental Distribution of Absolute Dependency Distance
Chapter Five How Subjects, Objects, Adverbials and Attributes Influence Syntactic Complexity
5.1 The MDD of Subjects, Objects, Adverbials and Attributes at Different Grades
5.2 The Developmental Features of DD of Subjects at Different Grades
5.3 The Developmental Features of DD of Objects at Different Grades
5.4 The Developmental Features of DD of Adverbials at Different Grades
5.5 The Developmental Features of DD of Attributes at Different Grades
5.6 Discussion on How Subjects, Objects, Adverbials and Attributes Influence Syntactic Complexity
Chapter Six The Relationship between Input and Syntactic Output
6.1 The Student Books Used at Schools
6.2 The Relationship between the Syntactic Input from the Books and the Output
Chapter Seven Conclusions
7.1 Summary of Major Findings
7.2 Implications of the Study
7.3 Limitations of the Study
7.4 Suggestions for Further Studies
参考文献
Appendix
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III