Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Objectives of the Study 1.3 Data Source and Methods 1.4 Organization of the Book Chapter Two Literature Review 2.1 Related Studies of English Adverbials 2.2 Related Studies of Chinese Adverbials 2.3 Comparative Studies of Adverbials in English and Chinese 2.4 Comparative Studies in the 21st Century: A Bibliometric Analysis 2.5 Summary Chapter Three Comparative Bases of Adverbials in English and Chinese 3.1 Sentence Patterns in English and Chinese 3.1.1 Sentence Patterns in English 3.1.2 Sentence Patterns in Chinese 3.2 Predicates and Adverbials in English and Chinese 3.2.1 Predicates in English and Chinese 3.2.2 Adverbials in English and Chinese 3.3 Sentence-Initial Elements in Chinese 3.3.1 Elements in the Subject Position 3.3.2 Elements in Front of the Subject 3.4 The Inverted Order of Adverbials and Their Heads 3.5 Summary Chapter Four A Comparative Study of Predicate Adverbials in English and Chinese 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Syntactic Features of Predicate Adverbials 4.2.1 Syntactic Forms of Predicate Adverbials 4.2.2 Syntactic Positions of Predicate Adverbials 4.2.3 Special Instances of Predicate Adverbials 4.3 Co-occurring Features of Predicate Adverbials 4.3.1 Co-occurring Variations of Predicate Adverbials 4.3.2 Co-occurring Positions of Predicate Adverbials 4.3.3 Co-occurring Ordering of Predicate Adverbials 4.4 A Cognitive Approach to Predicate Adverbials 4.4.1 A Brief Introduction to Iconicity 4.4.2 Sequence Iconicity in Predicate Adverbials 4.4.3 Proximity Iconicity in Predicate Adverbials 4.5 Summary Chapter Five A Comparative Study of Sentence Adverbials in English and Chinese 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Textual Functions of Disjunctive Adverbials 5.2.1 Disjunctive Adverbials in English 5.2.2 Disjunctive Adverbials in Chinese 5.2.3 A Brief Summary 5.3 Textual Functions of Conjunctive Adverbials 5.3.1 Conjunctive Adverbials in English 5.3.2 Conjunctive Adverbials in Chinese 5.3.3 A Brief Summary 5.4 A Cognitive Approach to Sentence Adverbials 5.4.1 The Context-Dependent Nature of Sentence Adverbials
5.4.2 Iconicity in Sentence Adverbials of English and Chinese 5.4.3 A Brief Summary 5.5 Summary Chapter Six Conclusions 6.1 Findings of the Study 6.2 Significance and Limitations 6.3 Suggestions for Future Research Appendices References
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