List of Abbreviations Chapter One The Research History ofMCP 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 Chapter Four MCPin Complement Clauses 4.1 Re-cognition of Chinese complement clauses 4.2 A contrastive study of MCP in English and Chinese factive complement clauses 4.3 A contrastive study of MCP in English and Chinese noun complement clauses 4.4 Summary Chapter Five Conclusion 5.1 The conclusions reached in the book 5.2 The innovations and highlights of the book 5.3 The limitations of the present study References