| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-11页 |
| List of Figures | 第11-13页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Origin of the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Necessity and significance of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Objectives of the study | 第16页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| ·Summary | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-31页 |
| ·Studies on corpus linguistics and adverbial usage abroad | 第18-24页 |
| ·Studies on corpus linguistics | 第18-21页 |
| ·Theoretical corpus study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Practical corpus study | 第20-21页 |
| ·Studies on English adverb | 第21-23页 |
| ·Definitions of adverbs | 第21-22页 |
| ·Classifications and functions of adverbs | 第22-23页 |
| ·Corpus-based studies on adverbs | 第23-24页 |
| ·Studies on corpus linguistics and adverbial usage at home | 第24-30页 |
| ·Chinese studies on corpus linguistics | 第24-27页 |
| ·Theoretical corpus studies | 第25-26页 |
| ·Practical corpus studies | 第26-27页 |
| ·Chinese Studies on adverbs | 第27-29页 |
| ·Definitions and classifications of adverbs | 第27-28页 |
| ·Functions and locations of adverbs | 第28-29页 |
| ·Chinese corpus-based studies on adverbs | 第29-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第31-42页 |
| ·Research questions | 第31页 |
| ·Research materials | 第31-36页 |
| ·Adverbial data from WECCL | 第31-34页 |
| ·Adverbial data from BNC | 第34-36页 |
| ·Method and tools | 第36-37页 |
| ·Data collections and analysis procedures | 第37-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-42页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第42-63页 |
| ·The overall adverbial using features of Chinese college English learners | 第42-54页 |
| ·The different adverbial using features between Chinese college English learners and native speakers of English | 第54-62页 |
| ·The overused adverbs of Chinese college English learners | 第55-56页 |
| ·The underused adverbs of Chinese college English learners | 第56-57页 |
| ·The unusual adverbial collocations of top-5 overused adverbs of Chinese college English learners | 第57-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-63页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第63-67页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第63-64页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications of the study | 第64-65页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for further researches | 第65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-67页 |
| Works Cited | 第67-72页 |
| Appendice | 第72-100页 |
| Appendix A The top-100 most-frequently used adverbs by Chinese collegeEnglish learners | 第72-75页 |
| Appendix B The top-100 least-frequently used adverbs by Chinese collegeEnglish learners | 第75-78页 |
| Appendix C The top-100 most-frequently used adverbs by native speakers ofEnglish | 第78-81页 |
| Appendix D The rank of the top-100 most-frequently used adverbs of Chinesecollege English learners in WECCL compared with BNC | 第81-84页 |
| Appendix E The chi-square calculating test of the top-100 most-frequently usedadverbs of Chinese college English learners | 第84-88页 |
| Appendix F The rank of the top-100 least-frequently used adverbs of Chinesecollege English learners in WECCL compared with BNC | 第88-92页 |
| Appendix G The chi-square calculating test of the top-100 least-frequently usedadverbs of Chinese college English learners | 第92-96页 |
| Appendix H CLAWS 4 tag set | 第96-100页 |
| Publications | 第100页 |
