| ABSTRACT | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第8-9页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| 2 Theoretical Background | 第12-49页 |
| ·Natural Semantic Metalanguage | 第12-23页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to the NSM Approach | 第12-13页 |
| ·Evolution of NSM | 第13-15页 |
| ·The Major Principles of NSM Approach | 第15-17页 |
| ·Semantic Explications | 第17-20页 |
| ·Cultural Scripts | 第20-23页 |
| ·Universal Basic Minimal Concepts of NSM—Semantic Primitives (or Primes) | 第23-35页 |
| ·Historical and Present Conditions of Semantic Primes Analyses | 第24-28页 |
| ·Ideology and Techniques of Semantic Primes Analyses | 第28-35页 |
| ·Corpus-Based Methods in Language Studies | 第35-49页 |
| ·Elementary Features of Corpora for Language Studies | 第40-42页 |
| ·Classification of the Corpus | 第42-44页 |
| ·Basic Principles of Building up Corpora for Language Studies | 第44-46页 |
| ·Lexical Collocations in Corpus-Based Study | 第46-49页 |
| 3 Methodology | 第49-62页 |
| ·Constitution of the Comparable Corpus | 第49-54页 |
| ·Principles of Building up Comparable Corpus | 第50-51页 |
| ·Structure of the Comparable Corpus | 第51-53页 |
| ·Dimensions and Contents of the Comparable Corpus | 第53-54页 |
| ·Frequencies and Correlations Analyses | 第54-62页 |
| ·Tools for Analyses | 第55页 |
| ·Frequency Analysis | 第55-57页 |
| ·Statistical Techniques | 第57-58页 |
| ·A Chi-Square Test | 第58-60页 |
| ·Pearson's Chi-Square Test | 第60-62页 |
| 4 Corpus Study on "Good" in English and "Hao" in Chinese | 第62-96页 |
| ·Raw Frequencies of "Good" and "Hao" | 第62-64页 |
| ·Procedure of Semantic Analyses of "Good" in the Corpus | 第64-75页 |
| ·Explanations of "Good" from Well-Known English Dictionaries | 第64-68页 |
| ·Semantic Analyses and Lexical Collocations of "Good" | 第68-73页 |
| ·Some Interesting Cases of the Primitive "Good" in the Corpus | 第73-74页 |
| ·Comparison of Valid Frequencies and Invalid Frequencies of "Good" | 第74-75页 |
| ·Procedure of Semantic Analyses of "Hao" in the Corpus | 第75-93页 |
| ·Explanations of "Hao" from Weil-Known English Dictionaries | 第75-77页 |
| ·Semantic Analyses and Lexical Collocations of "Hao" | 第77-91页 |
| ·Comparison of Valid Frequencies and Raw Frequencies of "Hao" in Each File of the Chinese Corpus | 第91-93页 |
| ·Statistical Hypothesis Test of Valid Frequencies of "Good" and "Hao" | 第93-95页 |
| ·Discussion on Results of Statistical Hypothesis Test | 第95-96页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第96-100页 |
| ·Limitation of the Study | 第97-98页 |
| ·Difficulties Expected and Suggestions for Future Research | 第98-100页 |
| Reference | 第100-105页 |
| The Appendix | 第105-109页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第109页 |
