目录 List of Figures List of Abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Types of enhanced theme constructions 1.2 The existential enhanced theme construction 1.2.1 "The EET construction" as a choice 1.2.2 Four types of EET constructions 1.3 Theoretical orientation 1.4 Objectives and research questions 1.5 Terms used in other studies 1.6 Data and methodology 1.7 The organization of the book Chapter 2 A Review of Previous Studies 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Traditional descriptive approaches 2.2.1 Jespersen (1937/1984, 1945/1965) 2.2.2 Bolinger (1977) 2.2.3 Quirk and Greenbaum (1973) and Quirk et al.(1985) 2.2.4 Huddleston (1984, 1988) 2.2.5 Biber et al.(1999/2000) 2.2.6 Huddleston and Pullum (2002) 2.3 Generative grammar approaches 2.3.1 Chomsky (1981) 2.3.2 Lumsden (1988) 2.3.3 Chomsky (1995) 2.3.4 Han (2001) 2.3.5 Tang (2001) 2.4 Functional approaches 2.4.1 Scottetal(1968) 2.4.2 Dik (1980, 1981) 2.4.3 Hannay (1985) 2.4.4 Young (1980) 2.4.5 Morley (2000) 2.4.6 Kuno and Takami (2004) 2.5 The Madrid Grammar approach 2.6 Concluding remarks Chapter 3 The Existential Enhanced Theme Construction: Towards a Theory-Neutral Description 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Basic characteristics of the construction 3.2.1 There 3.2.2 The Main Verb 3.2.3 Subject-verb agreement and a tentative account 3.2.4 The postverbal nominal group 3.2.5 The post-ngp element 3.3 Summary and conclusion Chapter 4 The Theoretical Framework 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Systemic functional grammar 4.2.1 Scales and categories 4.2.2 System and system network 4.2.3 Metafunctions and semantic networks in the Sydney Grammar 4.3 The Cardiff Grammar 4.3.1 History background 4.3.2 The main components in the Cardiff Grammar 4.3.3 Semantic system networks in the Cardiff Grammar 4.3.4 Realization rules 4.3.5 Form: realization in syntax 4.4 Concluding remarks Chapter 5 An Alternative Systemic Functional Approach 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Sydney Grammar approaches 5.2.1 Hallidays approach 5.2.2 Matthiessen (1995) 5.2.3 Downing and Locke (1992) 5.2.4 Thompson (1996/2000) and Huang (1997, 1999) 5.3 The Cardiff Grammar approach 5.3.1 The experiential meaning of the EET construction 5.3.2 Fawcetts syntactic-semantic analysis and minor adjustments 5.3.3 Two existential enhanced theme analyses 5.4 The thematic options in the EET construction 5.5 The relationship to the non-enhanced version 5.6 The syntactic-semantic analysis of different types of EET constructions 5.6.1 The locational EET construction 5.6.2 The attributive EET construction 5.6.3 The directional EET construction 5.6.4 The possessive EET construction 5.7 Summary and conclusions Chapter 6 The Semantics of the Verbs in the EET Construction 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Lexis as "most delicate grammar" 6.3 The exploration of the grammarians dream 6.3.1 Berry (1977) 6.3.2 Fawcett (1980, 1987) 6.3.3 Hasan (1987) 6.3.4 Cross (1992) 6.3.5 Tucker (1996, 1998) 6.4 The semantics of the verbs in the EET construction 6.4.1 Previous classifications 6.4.2 The systemic representation of the verbs in the construction 6.5 Concluding remarks Chapter 7 Discourse Functions 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Huangs taxonomy and Zhangs "system" 7.3 The discourse functions 7.3.1 The initiation function 7.3.2 The continuation function 7.3.3 The concluding function 7.3.4 The correction function 7.4 Concluding remarks Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusions 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The main arguments 8.2.1 Systemic functional orientation 8.2.2 A tentative account 8.2.3 Challenging the restrictions in the EET construction 8.2.4 Four types of EET constructions 8.2.5 The expanded network of existential enhanced theme 8.2.6 The semantics of the verbs in the EET construction 8.2.7 Discourse functions 8.3 Follow-up research 8.4 Concluding remarks References
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