| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-19页 |
| 1.1 Background of the Research | 第15-16页 |
| 1.2 Significance of the Research | 第16-17页 |
| 1.3 Purpose of the Research | 第17-18页 |
| 1.4 Organization of the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-29页 |
| 2.1 Dependency Grammar | 第19-25页 |
| 2.1.1 Brief History of Dependency Grammar | 第19-21页 |
| 2.1.2 Dependency Grammar and Phrase Structure Grammar | 第21-22页 |
| 2.1.3 Dependency Relation, Dependency Distance and Dependency Direction | 第22-25页 |
| 2.2 Interlanguage and English Learner Corpus | 第25-29页 |
| 2.2.1 Interlanguage | 第25-26页 |
| 2.2.2 English Learner Corpus | 第26-27页 |
| 2.2.3 Interlanguage Research Based on Learner Corpus | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2.4 Previous Studies on Attribute and Adverbial Used by L2 Learners | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第29-37页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2 Procedures of Data Collection | 第30-31页 |
| 3.2.1 Establishment of Data Pool | 第30页 |
| 3.2.2 Sampling | 第30-31页 |
| 3.3 Construction of the Treebank | 第31-33页 |
| 3.3.1 Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging | 第32页 |
| 3.3.2 Automatic Dependency Tagging | 第32页 |
| 3.3.3 Manual Check and Modification of Dependency Relations | 第32-33页 |
| 3.3.4 Manual Error Tagging | 第33页 |
| 3.4 Instruments | 第33-35页 |
| 3.4.1 Stanford Parser | 第33-34页 |
| 3.4.2 Excel | 第34页 |
| 3.4.3 SPSS | 第34-35页 |
| 3.5 Data Analysis | 第35-37页 |
| 3.5.1 Statistical Procedures of Measuring MDD at Different Levels | 第35-36页 |
| 3.5.1.1 Holistic Measuring of MDD from Grade to Grade | 第35页 |
| 3.5.1.2 Measuring MDD of Particular Dependency Relations of Attribute and Adverbial | 第35页 |
| 3.5.1.3 Measuring Dependency Direction across Different Grades | 第35-36页 |
| 3.5.2 Statistical Treatment of the Data | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Four Developmentat Features of Syntactic Performance in L2 Writings | 第37-64页 |
| 4.1 Overall Developmental Features of Dependency Relations | 第37-41页 |
| 4.1.1 Description of Overall Dependency Distance at Different Levels | 第37-40页 |
| 4.1.2 Discussion on the Developmental Features of Overall MDD | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2 Developmental Features of Attribute | 第41-52页 |
| 4.2.1 Description and Discussion of Attribute at Different Grades | 第41-43页 |
| 4.2.2 Description of Attribute-related MDD at Different Grades | 第43-45页 |
| 4.2.3 Typical Attribute-related Dependency Relations | 第45-50页 |
| 4.2.4 Description and Discussion of Attribute-related Dependency Direction | 第50-52页 |
| 4.3 Developmental Features of Adverbials | 第52-64页 |
| 4.3.1 Description and Discussion of Adverbial at Different Grades | 第52-55页 |
| 4.3.2 Description and Discussion of Adverbial-related MDD at Different Grades | 第55-57页 |
| 4.3.3 Typical Adverbial-related Dependency Relations | 第57-62页 |
| 4.3.4 Description and Discussion of Adverbial-related Dependency Direction at Different Grades | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第64-68页 |
| 5.1 Summary of Major Findings | 第64-65页 |
| 5.2 Implications of the Current Study | 第65-66页 |
| 5.3 Limitations of the Study | 第66页 |
| 5.4 Suggestions for Further Studies | 第66-68页 |
| References | 第68-71页 |
| Appendix | 第71-78页 |
| 作者简介 | 第78页 |
