| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 | 
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 | 
| 摘要 | 第8-14页 | 
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第14-18页 | 
| 1.1 Rationale of the Study | 第14-15页 | 
| 1.2 Research Objectives and Research Questions | 第15页 | 
| 1.3 Research Method and Conception | 第15-16页 | 
| 1.4 Research Significance | 第16页 | 
| 1.5 Organization of the Thesis | 第16-18页 | 
| CHAPTER TWO RELEVANT STUDIES ON SYNONYMS DISCRIMINATIONAND DESIDERATIVE VERBS | 第18-31页 | 
| 2.1 Research on Synonyms Discrimination | 第18-23页 | 
| 2.1.1 Referential Theory and Synonyms Discrimination | 第18-19页 | 
| 2.1.2 Componential Analysis and Synonyms Discrimination | 第19-21页 | 
| 2.1.3 Semantic Field and Synonyms Discrimination | 第21-22页 | 
| 2.1.4 Frame Semantics and Synonyms Discrimination | 第22-23页 | 
| 2.2 Corpus-based Research on Synonyms Discrimination | 第23-26页 | 
| 2.2.1 Semantic Collocation | 第24页 | 
| 2.2.2 Word Frequency | 第24-25页 | 
| 2.2.3 Colligation | 第25页 | 
| 2.2.4 Semantic Prosody | 第25-26页 | 
| 2.3 Relevant Studies on Desiderative verbs | 第26-30页 | 
| 2.3.1 Case Studies on Desiderative Verbs | 第26-28页 | 
| 2.3.2 Comprehensive Studies on Desiderative Verbs | 第28-30页 | 
| 2.4 Summary | 第30-31页 | 
| CHPATER THREE DIFFERENT USAGE OF DESIDERATIVE VERBS IN CLECAND BNC | 第31-44页 | 
| 3.1 Introduction to CLEC and BNC | 第31-32页 | 
| 3.1.1 CLEC (Chinese Learner English Corpus) | 第31-32页 | 
| 3.1.2 BNC (British National Corpus) | 第32页 | 
| 3.2 Corpus Analysis Tools | 第32-33页 | 
| 3.2.1 Word Sketch Engine | 第32-33页 | 
| 3.2.2 Ant Conc | 第33页 | 
| 3.2.3 Tag Ant | 第33页 | 
| 3.3 Research Procedures | 第33-36页 | 
| 3.3.1 Extraction data from CLEC | 第34-36页 | 
| 3.4 The analysis of the data | 第36-43页 | 
| 3.4.1 The Frequency of the Desiderative Verbs in CLEC and BNC | 第36-37页 | 
| 3.4.2 Collocation of the Desiderative Verbs in CLEC and BNC | 第37-41页 | 
| 3.4.3 Semantic Prosody of the Desiderative Verbs in CLEC and BNC | 第41-43页 | 
| 3.5 Summary | 第43-44页 | 
| CHAPTER FOUR DISCRIMIANTING DESIDERATIVE VERBS BASED ONFRAME SEMANTICS | 第44-58页 | 
| 4.1 Discriminating Synonyms on the Basis of Frame Semantics | 第44-47页 | 
| 4.1.1 Frame Net | 第44-45页 | 
| 4.1.2 Synonyms Discrimination | 第45-47页 | 
| 4.2 Discrimination of Desiderative verbs | 第47-57页 | 
| 4.2.1 Frames of Desiderative Verbs | 第47-48页 | 
| 4.2.2 Discrimination of Frame Elements of Desiderative Verbs | 第48-57页 | 
| 4.3 Summary | 第57-58页 | 
| CHAPTER FIVE TREATMENT OF SYNONYMS DISCRIMINATION INENGLISH DICTIONARIES | 第58-69页 | 
| 5.1 Treatment of Synonyms in Dictionaries | 第58-62页 | 
| 5.1.1 Treatment of Synonyms in ECLD | 第58-60页 | 
| 5.1.2 Treatment of Synonyms in Specialized Synonym Dictionaries | 第60-62页 | 
| 5.2 Discrimination Information of Desiderative Verbs in Learner’s Dictionaries | 第62-64页 | 
| 5.3 Deficiencies in Discrimination of Desiderative Verbs in Learner’sDictionaries | 第64-68页 | 
| 5.3.1 Deficiencies in Definition of Desidearative Verbs in Learner’sDictionaries | 第64-66页 | 
| 5.3.2 Deficiencies in Examples of Desiderative Verbs in Learner’sDictionaries | 第66-68页 | 
| 5.4 Summary | 第68-69页 | 
| CHAPTER SIX REPRESENTATION OF DESIDERATIVE VERBS INLEARNER’S DICTIONARIES | 第69-78页 | 
| 6.1 Multi-dimensional Definition Theory | 第69-70页 | 
| 6.2 Strategies for Representing Desideratives in ELD | 第70-73页 | 
| 6.2.1 Microstructure | 第71-72页 | 
| 6.2.2 Mediostructure | 第72-73页 | 
| 6.3 Discrimination of Desideratives in Dictionaries Based on MDT | 第73-76页 | 
| 6.4 Summary | 第76-78页 | 
| CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION | 第78-80页 | 
| 7.1 Major Findings of the Present Study | 第78-79页 | 
| 7.2 Implications of the Present Study | 第79页 | 
| 7.3 Limitations of the Present Study | 第79-80页 | 
| BIBLIOGRAHPY | 第80-93页 |