| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| ·Background to the Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Purpose and Significance of the Study | 第12页 |
| ·Structure of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第13-25页 |
| ·Lexical Characteristics of News English | 第13-20页 |
| ·Lexical Characteristics of Written News English | 第13-17页 |
| ·Lexical Characteristics of Broadcasting News English | 第17-20页 |
| ·The Study of Compound Words | 第20-25页 |
| ·Classification from Written Form Perspective | 第20-22页 |
| ·Solid Compounds | 第20页 |
| ·Open Compounds | 第20页 |
| ·Hyphenated Compounds | 第20-22页 |
| ·Classification from Parts of Speech Perspective | 第22-23页 |
| ·Noun Compounds | 第22-23页 |
| ·Adjective Compounds | 第23页 |
| ·Verb Compounds | 第23页 |
| ·Characteristics of Compound Words | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Data Collection and Research Method | 第25-31页 |
| ·Three Corpora Used in the Study | 第25-26页 |
| ·Establishment of WNE Corpus | 第25页 |
| ·Selection of BNC and BNE Corpora | 第25-26页 |
| ·Methods of Analysis | 第26-31页 |
| ·Instruments | 第26-27页 |
| ·Research Procedures | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第31-60页 |
| ·Analysis of Hyphenated Compound Words | 第31-55页 |
| ·Overall Frequency of Hyphenated Compound Words | 第31-36页 |
| ·Numbers of the Components of Hyphenated Compound Words | 第36-40页 |
| ·Classification from Perspective of Different Parts of Speech | 第40-47页 |
| ·Functions of Hyphenated Compound Words in WNE | 第47-55页 |
| ·Heavy Use of Pre-modification | 第49-54页 |
| ·Little Use of Non-premodification | 第54-55页 |
| ·Analysis of the Components of Hyphenated Compound Words | 第55-60页 |
| ·Word Length of the Components | 第55-58页 |
| ·Parts of Speech of the Components | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions | 第60-63页 |
| ·The Major Findings | 第60-61页 |
| ·Implications | 第61-62页 |
| ·Limitations | 第62-63页 |
| References | 第63-66页 |
| Appendices | 第66-69页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第69-70页 |
| Resume | 第70页 |
