List of Abbreviations
Chapter One The Research History of MCP
1.1 The origin of the MCP research
1.2 Present concerns about the MCP restriction
1.3 The questions to be answered
1.4 Two guiding theories
1.5 The outline of the book
Chapter Two The Previous Studies of MCP
2.1 The syntactic account of MCP
2.2 The semantic account of MCP
2.3 The cartographic account of MCP
2.4 Summary
Chapter Three MCP in Adverbial Clauses and Structures
3.1 Re-cognition of Chinese adverbial clauses and structures
3.2 A contrastive study of MCP in English and Chinese conditional adverbial clauses
3.3 A contrastive study of MCP in English and Chinese temporal adverbials
3.4 Summary
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