| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Thesis | 第13页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-38页 |
| ·Noun-phrase Types | 第15-22页 |
| ·Quirk's View | 第15-16页 |
| ·Biber's View | 第16-18页 |
| ·Noun-phrase Types Used in the Thesis | 第18-22页 |
| ·Syntactic Functions | 第22-28页 |
| ·The Definitions of Syntactic Functions | 第22-25页 |
| ·Syntactic Functions of Noun Phrases | 第25-28页 |
| ·Differences between Written and Spoken Languages | 第28-31页 |
| ·Lexical Differences between Spoken and Written Languages | 第29页 |
| ·Syntactic Differences between Spoken and Written Languages | 第29-31页 |
| ·Review of Previous Studies on Noun Phrases | 第31-38页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Distributions of Noun Phrases | 第31-33页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Associations between Noun-phrase Types and Syntactic Functions | 第33-38页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第38-43页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach | 第38页 |
| ·The Corpus Used in the Study | 第38-41页 |
| ·Written Component of ICE-GB | 第39-40页 |
| ·Spoken Component of ICE-GB | 第40页 |
| ·The Samples for the Study | 第40-41页 |
| ·Tools for Data Processing | 第41-42页 |
| ·Procedure for Data Collection | 第42-43页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第43-67页 |
| ·Noun-phrase Types in ICE-GB | 第43-52页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies and Distributions of Noun Phrases in ICE-GB | 第43-46页 |
| ·High Frequency Noun Phrases | 第46-48页 |
| ·Distributions of Premodifier+head Types in GBS and GBW | 第48-50页 |
| ·Distributions of Head+postmodifier Types in GBS and GBW | 第50-52页 |
| ·Comparison of Noun-phrase Types between GBS and GBW | 第52页 |
| ·Syntactic Functions of Noun-phrase Types in ICE-GB | 第52-58页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies of Syntactic Functions of NPs | 第52-54页 |
| ·Distribution of Noun Phrases as Subject | 第54-56页 |
| ·Distribution of Noun Phrases as Object | 第56页 |
| ·Distribution of Noun Phrases as Complement | 第56-58页 |
| ·Comparison of Syntactic Functions of Noun Phrases between GBS and GBW | 第58页 |
| ·Associations between Syntactic Functions and Noun-phrase Types | 第58-67页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies of Syntactic Functions of Complex Noun Phrases in ICE-GB | 第59-61页 |
| ·Frequencies of Syntactic functions of Premodifier+headinICE-GB | 第61-63页 |
| ·Frequencies of Syntactic Functions of Head+postmodifier in ICE-GB | 第63-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-67页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第67-70页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第67-68页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第68-69页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research | 第69-70页 |
| References | 第70-75页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第75-77页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第77-79页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第79-84页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第84-85页 |
| Resume | 第85页 |
