| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-12页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第13-16页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第16页 |
| ·Research Design | 第16-19页 |
| ·Data-collection | 第17-18页 |
| ·Data-Processing | 第18-19页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第21-31页 |
| ·Review of Multiple Class Membership in Modern Chinese | 第21-24页 |
| ·Different Criteria to Qualify Multiple Class Membership | 第21-23页 |
| ·Temporary Conversion Versus Conventionalized Conversion | 第23-24页 |
| ·Controversies over the Number of Multi-category Words | 第24-30页 |
| ·The Principle of Simplicity | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Anti-Simplicity Principle views | 第27-29页 |
| ·Previous Studies over Correlation between Frequency and Multiple Class Membership | 第29-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第31-43页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31页 |
| ·Language in Use | 第31-34页 |
| ·A Usage Event | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Relationship between Usage and Linguistic Structure | 第32-34页 |
| ·Language Use and Emergence of Structure | 第32-33页 |
| ·Language Use, Gradience and Variation | 第33-34页 |
| ·Frequency and Accessibility | 第34-42页 |
| ·Dynamic Categorization Theory | 第34-37页 |
| ·Categorization | 第34-35页 |
| ·Decategorization of Word Classes | 第35-36页 |
| ·Recategorization of word classes | 第36-37页 |
| ·Frequency in Schema Formation | 第37-42页 |
| ·Token Frequency and Schema Formation | 第38页 |
| ·Type Frequency and Schema Formation | 第38-39页 |
| ·Frequency and Multiple Class Membership | 第39-42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第43-69页 |
| ·Overall Description of Statistical Results | 第43-48页 |
| ·Statistical Results of the POS Labeling in CCD5 | 第43-45页 |
| ·Statistical Results of the POS Labeling from CCL Corpus Calculation | 第45-47页 |
| ·A Statistical Contrast of Word Class Distribution Between CCD5 and CCL Corpus | 第47-48页 |
| ·Discussion | 第48-62页 |
| ·Frequency and Multiple Class Membership: A Positive Correlation | 第48-50页 |
| ·Effect of Token Frequency on the Higher Frequency Words | 第50-53页 |
| ·Effect of Type Frequency on the Higher Frequency Words | 第53-55页 |
| ·Effect of Token and Type Frequency on the High Frequency Words | 第55-62页 |
| ·The Invalidity of the Principle of Simplicity | 第62-68页 |
| ·The Impracticality of the Principle of Simplicity in Theory | 第62-64页 |
| ·The Impracticality of the Principle of Simplicity in Practice | 第64-68页 |
| ·Dictionary Compilation | 第65-67页 |
| ·Second Language User's Perspective | 第67-68页 |
| ·Summary | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-72页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第69-70页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第70页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Study | 第70-72页 |
| References | 第72-79页 |
| Appendices | 第79-91页 |
