| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-29页 |
| ·Approaches to Collocation Study | 第15-26页 |
| ·Lexical Approach to Collocation Study | 第15-19页 |
| ·Semantic Approach to Collocation Study | 第19-22页 |
| ·Structural Approach to Collocation Study | 第22-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26页 |
| ·Working Definition of Collocation in the Present Study | 第26-27页 |
| ·Empirical Studies on Mental Verb Collocation | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Two Research Design | 第29-34页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第29页 |
| ·Methodology | 第29-31页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第29-30页 |
| ·Error Analysis | 第30-31页 |
| ·Description of the Corpora | 第31-32页 |
| ·Instruments and Procedures for Data-Collection | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Three Research Results and Discussion | 第34-46页 |
| ·Overall Frequency of the Mental Verb Collocations | 第34-36页 |
| ·Patterns of the Mental Verb Collocations by the Chinese English Majors | 第36-40页 |
| ·More Mental Verb Collocation Types | 第36-37页 |
| ·Difference in Typicality | 第37-38页 |
| ·Mental Verb Collocations with a High Degree of Congruence | 第38-39页 |
| ·Different Writing Perspectives | 第39-40页 |
| ·Causes of the Differences in Mental Verb Collocations | 第40-45页 |
| ·First Language Transfer | 第40-42页 |
| ·Overgeneralization | 第42页 |
| ·Ignorance of Collocational Restrictions | 第42-43页 |
| ·Insufficient Collocation Input | 第43-44页 |
| ·Influence of Chinese Culture | 第44-45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-46页 |
| Chapter Four Implications for English Learning and Teaching | 第46-50页 |
| ·Expanding Learners’Vocabulary | 第46页 |
| ·Raising Learners’Awareness of Collocation | 第46-47页 |
| ·Increasing Collocation Input | 第47页 |
| ·Learning and Teaching Collocation by Comparing L1 and L2 | 第47-48页 |
| ·Encouraging Students to Use Collocation | 第48-49页 |
| ·Acquiring Collocation from Dictionaries | 第49页 |
| ·Making Use of Corpora | 第49-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-58页 |
| Appendices | 第58-74页 |
| Appendix 1 Collocates of WANT in the Corpora | 第58-64页 |
| Appendix 2 Collocates of SEE in the Corpora | 第64-68页 |
| Appendix 3 Collocates of KNOW in the Corpora | 第68-74页 |
| Publication | 第74页 |
