| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-14页 |
| Chapter1 Introduction | 第14-16页 |
| ·Significance of This Study | 第14页 |
| ·Purpose of This Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第15页 |
| ·Layout of This Study | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter2 Literature Review | 第16-24页 |
| ·Adverbs | 第16-21页 |
| ·Overview of Adverbs | 第16-17页 |
| ·Forms of Adverbs | 第17-18页 |
| ·Syntactic Roles of Adverbs | 第18-19页 |
| ·Semantic Categories of Adverbs | 第19-21页 |
| ·Degree Adverbs | 第21-24页 |
| ·Definition of Degree Adverbs | 第21页 |
| ·Semantic Classifications of Degree Adverbs | 第21-23页 |
| ·Syntactic Roles of Amplifiers and Diminishers | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter3 Research Methodology | 第24-30页 |
| ·Introduction to Corpus | 第24-25页 |
| ·Corpora Used in This Study | 第25-27页 |
| ·Brown Corpus | 第25页 |
| ·LOB | 第25-26页 |
| ·CLEC | 第26-27页 |
| ·Self-Created Small-Scale Corpus for EFL Class | 第27页 |
| ·Instruments | 第27-28页 |
| ·AntConc3.2.1w | 第28页 |
| ·SPSS 18.0 | 第28页 |
| ·Procedures for Data Collection | 第28-30页 |
| ·Choice the Proper Degree Adverbs for This Study | 第28-29页 |
| ·Retrieving the Corpora | 第29页 |
| ·Calculating Statistics | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter4 Results and Discussion | 第30-68页 |
| ·Comparisons of Degree Adverbs in the Three Corpora | 第30-40页 |
| ·Frequencies of Degree Adverbs in the Three Corpora | 第30-34页 |
| ·A List of Degree Adverbs in Order of Frequencies | 第34-35页 |
| ·Comparisons of Degree Adverbs for Different Levels of Chinese EFL Learners | 第35-37页 |
| ·Frequencies of Degree Adverbs in a Self-Created Small-Scale Corpus for EFL Class | 第37-39页 |
| ·Possible Reasons for the Results | 第39-40页 |
| ·Collocations of Degree Adverbs | 第40-46页 |
| ·Comparisons of Degree Adverbs Collocations in BROWN, LOB and CLEC | 第40-43页 |
| ·A List of Degree Adverbs in Order of Collocations | 第43-45页 |
| ·Possible Reasons for the Results | 第45-46页 |
| ·Frequently-Used Collocations in BROWN, LOB and CLEC | 第46-49页 |
| ·Top 20 Frequently-Used Collocations in BROWN, LOB and CLEC | 第46-49页 |
| ·Potential Reasons for the Data and Solutions | 第49页 |
| ·Collocations of Maximizers | 第49-55页 |
| ·A List of Collocations of Maximizers | 第50-51页 |
| ·Analyses towards the Maximizers Separately | 第51-55页 |
| ·Collocations of Boosters | 第55-63页 |
| ·A List of collocations of Boosters | 第55-57页 |
| ·Analyses of the Boosters Separately | 第57-63页 |
| ·Collocations of Downtoners | 第63-68页 |
| ·A List of collocations of Downtoners | 第63-65页 |
| ·Analyses of the Downtoners Separately | 第65-68页 |
| Chapter5 Conclusion | 第68-71页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第68-70页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第70页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第70-71页 |
| References | 第71-74页 |
| Publications | 第74-75页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第75-76页 |
| Resume | 第76-77页 |
