声明
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 Objectives of the research
1.3 Significance of the present study
1.4 Research questions and possible solutions
1.5 Organization of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature review
2.1 Previous studies based on other languages
2.2 Previous studies based on Mandarin Chinese
2.3 Summary
Chapter 3 Representation of Scrambling in Mandarin Chinese
3.1 The scrambled sentence
3.2 The correlates
3.2.1 Inversion
3.2.2 Afterthought
3.2.3 Repetition
3.2.4 Flip-flop sentence
3.3 Summary
Chapter 4 Mechanism of scrambling in Mandarin Chinese
4.1 Syntactic analysis
4.1.1 Process of scrambling
4.1.2 Constituents of the anticipatory part
4.1.3 Constituents of the subsequent part
4.1.4 Constraints
4.2 Semantic analysis
4.2.1 The semantic focus
4.2.1 The semantic self-sufficiency
4.3 Beyond syntax and semantics
4.4 Summary
Conclusion
Major findings
Limitations and suggestions for further studies
参考文献
Appendix A: 作者在攻读硕士期间发表论文
Appendix B: 详细中文摘要
致谢
湖南大学;