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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1£®1 Understanding Chinese Anaphoric Forms
1£®2 Taxonomy of Anaphora
1£®3 Main Proposals of This Thesis
1£®4 Research Methodology and Signiflcances
1£®5 Organization of the Thesis

CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON ANAPHORA
2£®1 English Anaphora Research from a Discourse Perspective
2£®1£®1 Functional Approaches
2£®1£®2 Cognitive Approaches
2£®1£®3 Anaphora Research with a Semantic Approach
2£®1£®4 Computational Approaches
2£®1£®5 Topicality / Saliency / Discourse Structure / Accessibility and Anaphoric Forms
2£®2 Chinese Anaphora Research from a Discourse Perspective
2£®2£®1 Anaphora Research with a Neo-Gricean Approach
2£®2£®2 Anaphora Research with a Functional Approach
2£®2£®3 Accessibility Theory
2£®2£®4 Anaphora Research Influenced by Cognitive Grammar Theory£®
2£®2£®5 Anaphora Research with a CT Approach
2£®2£®6 Evaluations of Anaphora Research on Chinese
2£®3 Summary

CHAPTER 3 INTERPRETING CHINESE ANAPHORIC FORMS
3£®1 Common Features of the Factors Suggested by the Past Work
3£®2 Factors Affecting the Use of Chinese Anaphoric Forms
3£®2£®1 The Accessibility for the Interpretations of Anaphoric Forms
3£®2£®2 What Factors Can Affect the Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®2£®3 Factors in Interpretations of Chinese Anaphoric Forms
3£®3 Discourse Structure and the Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®3£®1 Past Work on Discourse Structure
3£®3£®2 The Construction of Chinese Discourse Structure
3£®3£®3 How Discourse Structure Affects the Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®4 Topicality and the Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®4£®1 Some Previous Discussions on Topicality
3£®4£®2 Determining of the Topic
3£®4£®3 The Topicality and the Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®5 Saliency and Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®5£®1 Some Discussions on Saliency
3£®5£®2 The Determination of the Saliency
3£®5£®3 The Saliency and the Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®6 Referential Distance and the Accessibility of the Antecedent
3£®7 Interpreting the Uses of Chinese Anaphoric Forms
3£®7£®1 Two Difficulties and the Resolutions
3£®7£®2 The Ranking of Antecedents Based on the Accessibility
3£®7£®3 The Interpretations of Uses of Chinese Anaphoric Forms
3£®8 Summary

CHAPTER 4 A CORPUS-BASED STUDY ON CHINESE ANAPHORIC FORMS
4£®1 The Corpus
4£®2 Distributions of Chinese Anaphoric Forms in the Corpus
4£®2£®1 Distributions of Zero Pronouns
4£®2£®2 Distributions of Overt Pronouns
4£®2£®3 Distributions of Descriptive NPs
4£®2£®4 Distributions of Full NPs
4£®3 A Comparison between the Corpus Distributions and the Conceptual Interpretations of Chinese Anaphoric Forms
4£®3£®1 Distributions of Anaphoric Forms in Diverse Discourse Structures
4£®3£®2 Distributions of Anaphoric Forms Based on the Super-node Structures and the AN-pairs
4£®4 Summary

CHAPTER 5 A BRIEF COMPARISON
5£®1 Advantages of the Interpretations of Chinese Anaphoric Forms in This Thesis
5£®2 A Brief Comparison of Some Prominent Interpretations on Chinese Anaphoric Forms
5£®2£®1 A Theoretical Comparison
5£®2£®2 An Instantiated Comparison
5£®3 Summary

CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS
6£®1 Summary
6£®2 Contributions
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