| DECLARATION | 第1-4页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| CONTENTS | 第8-11页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第11-20页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第20-23页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL BASIS OF THE STUDY | 第23-39页 |
| 2．0 Overview | 第23页 |
| 2．1 Survey of the learner's dictionaries | 第23-26页 |
| 2．2 Review of the cognitive learner's dictionary | 第26-31页 |
| 2．2．1 The embryo of cognitive lexicography | 第26页 |
| 2．2．2 Main points of Zhao's cognitive approach to lexicography | 第26-31页 |
| 2．3 Morphological treatment in the present learner's dictionaries | 第31-39页 |
| 2．3．1 The treatment of entries for affixes in EFL/ESL dictionaries | 第31-34页 |
| 2．3．2 The treatment of entries for roots in the 'Big Four' | 第34-35页 |
| 2．3．3 Word formation rules in LDOCE | 第35-37页 |
| 2．4 The consequence of the literature review | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第39-49页 |
| 3．0 Overview | 第39页 |
| 3．1 Inadequacies in cognitive approach in the learner's dictionaries | 第39-42页 |
| 3．1．1 Neglect of vocabulary acquisition | 第39-41页 |
| 3．1．2 Isolation of relations between word relatives | 第41页 |
| 3．1．3 Ignorance of word processing | 第41-42页 |
| 3．2 Theoretical framework for the proposed study | 第42-48页 |
| 3．2．1 A computational model of word processing | 第42-45页 |
| 3．2．2 Semantic networks in the mental lexicon | 第45-46页 |
| 3．2．3 Semantic networks in the total vocabulary | 第46-48页 |
| 3．3 The application of the theoretical framework | 第48-49页 |
| CHAPTER 4 MORPHOLOGICAL TREATMENT IN THE CLD | 第49-91页 |
| 4．0 Overview | 第49-50页 |
| 4．1 The whole system of word-formation rules | 第50-73页 |
| 4．1．1 Critique of word-formation rules in LDOCE | 第50页 |
| 4．1．2 Word formation process （from practice to theory） | 第50-66页 |
| 4．1．3 Possible treatment of word formation rules in the CLD | 第66-73页 |
| 4．2 Morphological analysis of word entries | 第73-81页 |
| 4．2．1 Critique of the absence of morphological analysis in the present learner's dictionaries | 第73-74页 |
| 4．2．2 The importance of morphological analysis for complex word entries | 第74-75页 |
| 4．2．3 Possible models of morphological analysis for the entries of complex words in the CLD | 第75-81页 |
| 4．3 The treatment of morpheme entries | 第81-91页 |
| 4．3．1 A systematics of criteria of morpheme entries and the critique of the 'Big Four' dictionaries | 第81-89页 |
| 4．3．2 Suggested model entries of bound morphemes | 第89-91页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION | 第91-96页 |
| 5．0 Overview | 第91页 |
| 5．1 Summary | 第91-92页 |
| 5．2 Limitations of the research | 第92-94页 |
| 5．2．1 Banality of the rules tot compounds | 第92-93页 |
| 5．2．2 Exception of the simplex words | 第93页 |
| 5．2．3 Unsuitability for complex morphological systems | 第93页 |
| 5．2．4 Occupation of space | 第93-94页 |
| 5．3 Implications and the future prospects | 第94-96页 |
| APPENDIX A | 第96-97页 |
| APPENDIX B | 第97-98页 |
| REFERENCES | 第98-105页 |
