中国：神龙腾向新千年 5
Chapter 1 The mirror of the mind 7
Linguistics as a science 8
Preface by Halliday 9
王宗炎序 10
Preface by Chomsky 13
Modularity 17
沈家煊序 20
导读 23
我在中国的十年 27
Competence and performance 28
Acknowledgments 34
Performance,parsing,and pragmatics 35
Evolution and innateness 38
Natural language and the language of thought 45
Chapter 2 The linguistic foundation 49
Introduction 49
Knowledge of language 50
The lexicon 50
Knowledge of language:structure 53
老外遭遇中国食文化 53
Knowledge of language:structural relations 54
Levels of representation 56
Constituents and rules 57
Deep structure 59
Description versus explanation 62
Government and Binding theory 69
Empty caegories 76
难忘中国 77
The status of transformations 80
Principles and parameters 81
Lexical and functional categories 83
Minimalism 86
A historical progression 90
Evolution 91
一位美国教师对中国学生的初始印象 93
Chapter 3 Psychological reality 93
Causality and observability 95
Psychological reality and the nature of evidence 97
Language processing 106
中间道路 107
Language acquisiton(Plato s problem) 116
Language pathology 126
戏说中国烹饪 129
Connectionism:the behaviorists strike back 131
边走边看——与中国同行的日子 149
在中国做一个“老外”意味着什么？ 173
他们怎么敢？ 185
祖国 193
文化之都北京改变了我的世界观 199
我的命运与中国紧密相连 219
中国奇遇记 239
海外华人札记 263
同志巴士 281
中国第一印象 293
禁烟在中国 309
我看中国 325
中国：故土重游 347