| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-18页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第11页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第11-14页 |
| ·Terminological Issues | 第14-15页 |
| ·Tools and Data Resources | 第15-16页 |
| ·Corpora | 第15-16页 |
| ·Programs and Software | 第16页 |
| ·Techniques in the Study | 第16页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-34页 |
| ·General Historical Views on N+N Sequence | 第18-24页 |
| ·Quirk's View | 第18-20页 |
| ·Biber et al's View | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Third Point of View | 第22-24页 |
| ·N + N Sequence with Plural Premodifier | 第24-25页 |
| ·N+ N Sequence with Multiple Noun Premodifiers | 第25-28页 |
| ·Semantic Relationships Expressed by N+ N Sequence | 第28-34页 |
| ·Quirk's View and Classifications | 第28-29页 |
| ·Biber et al's View and Classifications | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Third Point of View and Classification | 第30-33页 |
| ·My Classification of N + N Sequences | 第33-34页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第34-40页 |
| ·General introduction of JDEST and BROWN Corpus | 第34-35页 |
| ·Tools and Software | 第35-36页 |
| ·Data Sampling and Processing in JDEST and BROWN | 第36-38页 |
| ·Tagging of the 4 Sub-corpora | 第36-38页 |
| ·N + N Sequences Obtained | 第38页 |
| ·Manual work | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Four Comparison of N+N Sequence in JDEST and BROWN Corpus | 第40-66页 |
| ·Frequency of N + N Sequence in JDEST & BROWN | 第40-46页 |
| ·Frequency Comparison between JDEST and BROWN | 第40-42页 |
| ·Reasons for the Frequency Differences | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Top N+N Sequences in JDEST and Brown | 第43-46页 |
| ·Nouns in N + N Sequence of JDEST & BROWN | 第46-51页 |
| ·Noun Frequency in N + N Sequence | 第46-48页 |
| ·Differences of the Noun Types | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Top Nouns in N+N Sequence in JDEST and Brown | 第49-51页 |
| ·Comparison of Premodifiers in JDEST and BROWN | 第51-54页 |
| ·Noun Premodifier Frequency in JDEST & BROWN | 第51-52页 |
| ·The Top Noun Premodifiers and Their Productivities | 第52-54页 |
| ·Productivity of Head Nouns in JDEST and BROWN | 第54-55页 |
| ·N+N Sequences with Plural Noun Premodifiers | 第55-58页 |
| ·N+N Sequences with Multiple Noun Premodifiers | 第58页 |
| ·Semantic Relationships Expressed by N+N Sequence | 第58-66页 |
| ·Classification of N+N Sequence in JDEST Corpus | 第59-63页 |
| ·Classification of N+N Sequence in Brown Corpus | 第63-66页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第66-69页 |
| ·Main Findings | 第66-68页 |
| ·Limitations and Further Study | 第68-69页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第69-72页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第72-73页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第73-76页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第76-78页 |
| Appendix 4 | 第78-79页 |
| Appendix 5 | 第79-81页 |
| Appendix 6 | 第81-83页 |
| Appendix 7 | 第83-84页 |
| Publication | 第84-85页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第85-86页 |
| Resume | 第86页 |
