| 英文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第5-8页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第8-16页 |
| 1．1 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE | 第8页 |
| 1．2 DEFINITION OF ETYMOLOGY | 第8-10页 |
| 1．3 SIGNIFICANCE AND AIM OF THE STUDY | 第10-11页 |
| 1．4 RESEARCH METHODS AND TECHNIQUES | 第11-14页 |
| 1．4．1 Corpus Building and Text Sampling | 第12-13页 |
| 1．4．2 The Other Corpora Used | 第13-14页 |
| 1．4．3 Programming Language and Software Used | 第14页 |
| 1．5 LAYOUT | 第14-16页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION | 第16-65页 |
| 2．1 DEFINITION OF MYTH | 第16页 |
| 2．2 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHS | 第16-22页 |
| 2．2．1 Origins and Formation of Greek and Roman Myths | 第16-19页 |
| 2．2．2 Systems and Contents of Greek and Roman Myths | 第19-21页 |
| 2．2．3 Way and Reason．for Words from Greco-Roman Mythology into the English Language | 第21-22页 |
| 2．3 BRIEF REVIEW OF VOCABULARY STUDY | 第22-43页 |
| 2．3．1 History of Foreign Elements in the English Language | 第23-27页 |
| 2．3．2 Assimilation of Loan Words | 第27-29页 |
| 2．3．3 Morphological Structure of English Words | 第29-31页 |
| 2．3．4 Analysis of Word -Formation | 第31-36页 |
| 2．3．5 Polysemy | 第36-40页 |
| 2．3．6 Semasiology Change of English Language | 第40-43页 |
| 2．4 TYPES OF WORDS FROM GRECO-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY | 第43-60页 |
| 2．4．1 According to Sources | 第43-53页 |
| 2．4．2 According to Word-Class | 第53页 |
| 2．4．3 According to Discipline | 第53-57页 |
| 2．4．4 According to the Productivity of Words | 第57-60页 |
| 2．5 FORM DEVELOPMENT OF WORDS FROM GRECO-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY | 第60-61页 |
| 2．6 PHONOLOGICAL STUDY | 第61-62页 |
| 2．7 IDIOMS | 第62-65页 |
| 2．7．1 Idioms Which Contain Proper Names | 第63-64页 |
| 2．7．2 Idioms Which do not Contain Proper Names | 第64-65页 |
| CHAPTER 3 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION | 第65-96页 |
| 3．1 CODING OF THE TEXTS IN LMENC | 第65-66页 |
| 3．2 FREQUENCY AND DISTRIBUTION OF WORDS FROM GRECO-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY IN THE FOUR CORPORA BY USING WORDLIST | 第66-69页 |
| 3．3 ANALYSIS OF WORDS DERIVING FROM GRECO-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY UNIQUE TO EACH CORPORA | 第69-91页 |
| 3．3．1 Words Occurring in T4 But not in LMENC, BROWNA and LOBA | 第69-72页 |
| 3．3．2 Words Occurring in BROWNA But not in LMENC, LOBA and T4 | 第72-75页 |
| 3．3．3 Words Occurring in LOBA But not in LMENC, BROWNA and T4 | 第75-78页 |
| 3．3．4 Words Only Occurring in LMENC But not in the Other Three Corpora | 第78-91页 |
| 3．4 STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE TOP TEN WORDS IN LMENC, LOBA, BROWNA AND T4 | 第91-96页 |
| CHAPTER 4 CONCLUSION | 第96-99页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第99-100页 |
| REFERENCE | 第100-102页 |
| APPENDIXES | 第102-116页 |
