| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSENGLISH | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第7-10页 |
| LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURE | 第10-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1. Research background | 第12-13页 |
| 2. Significance and aims of the present study | 第13-14页 |
| 3. Research questions | 第14-15页 |
| 4. Structure of the study | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 1 A Review of Related Previous Work | 第16-24页 |
| ·Patterns and meanings | 第16-17页 |
| ·Phraseology | 第17-18页 |
| ·Collocational frameworks | 第18-23页 |
| ·Summary of the literature review | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter 2 Research Methods | 第24-29页 |
| ·Corpora and tools to be used in the study | 第24-26页 |
| ·Study methods | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Characteristics and Categorization of the Collocational Frameworks | 第29-55页 |
| ·Data profile & approach to classification | 第29-32页 |
| ·NP2 as the headword | 第32-48页 |
| ·NP1 as the headword | 第48-49页 |
| ·Double-headed frameworks | 第49-52页 |
| ·Mopping up | 第52-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter 4 Semantic Prosody | 第55-63页 |
| ·“a horde of” | 第55-57页 |
| ·“a galaxy of” | 第57-60页 |
| ·“an act of” | 第60-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-63页 |
| Chapter 5 Semi-fixed or Fixed Expressions | 第63-82页 |
| ·Statistics of the top 20 NP1 in “a/an NP1 of NP2” | 第63-68页 |
| ·The centrality of the frameworks to the language | 第68-70页 |
| ·A detailed observation of the top 20 most common triplets | 第70-77页 |
| ·Collocational frameworks in which NP1 is a noun with one pre-modifier | 第77-81页 |
| ·Summary | 第81-82页 |
| Chapter 6 A Comparative Study of the Use of “a/an NP1 of NP2” by Chinese learners and Native Speakers | 第82-90页 |
| ·An overall picture of the uses of the frameworks by Chinese learners | 第82-83页 |
| ·A frequency comparison of the frameworks | 第83-84页 |
| ·Chinese learners’use of the collocational frameworks | 第84-89页 |
| ·Summary | 第89-90页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion | 第90-94页 |
| ·Summary of the study | 第90-91页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第91-93页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and further research | 第93-94页 |
| References | 第94-98页 |
| Appendix | 第98-100页 |
