| CONTENTS | 第1-5页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第8-10页 |
| 1．1 THE AIM OF STUDY | 第8-9页 |
| 1．2 THE LAYOT OF THE THESIS | 第9-10页 |
| CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF PAST AND PRESENT RESEARCH ON BARE INFINITIVE | 第10-13页 |
| CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE INFINITIVE | 第13-66页 |
| 3．1 THE FULL INFINITIVE | 第13-16页 |
| 3．1．1 The Full Infinitive as Subject | 第13-14页 |
| 3．1．2 The Full Infinitive as Complement | 第14页 |
| 3．1．3 The full Infinitive as object complement | 第14-15页 |
| 3．1．4 The Full Infinitive as Attributive Adjunct | 第15页 |
| 3．1．5 The Full Infinitive as Object | 第15页 |
| 3．1．6 The Full Infinitive Expressing Result | 第15页 |
| 3．1．7 The Full Infinitive Expressing the Idea of ”Bad News” Following ”Good News” | 第15-16页 |
| 3．1．8 The Full Infinitive as a Comment on the Sentence | 第16页 |
| 3．1．9 Question Word + Full Infinitive as a Shart Form of Clauses | 第16页 |
| 3．2 THE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF THE WORD TO | 第16-19页 |
| 3．3 THE BARE INFINITIVE | 第19-66页 |
| 3．3．1 Perception Verbs | 第22-43页 |
| 3．3．2 Causative verbs | 第43-57页 |
| 3．3．3 Help | 第57-60页 |
| 3．3．4 Let | 第60-62页 |
| 3．3．5 Find | 第62-63页 |
| 3．3．6 know | 第63-66页 |
| CHAPTER 4 CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF INFINITIVE | 第66-95页 |
| 4．1 RELATED CORPORA USED IN THE RESEARCH | 第66页 |
| 4．2 WORD PROCESSING AND STATISTICAL SOFTWARE AND TECHNIOUE USED IN THIS THESIS | 第66-67页 |
| 4．3 RESULTS AND ANALYSIS | 第67-78页 |
| 4．3．1 A Discussion of the Distribution of the Verbs in Each Corpus | 第67-73页 |
| 4．3．2 !uantitative Analysis on the Bare Infinitive | 第73-78页 |
| 4．4 THE ANALYSIS ON THE BARE INFINITIVE IN NEC | 第78-95页 |
| 4．4．1 Perception Verb | 第78-83页 |
| 4．4．2 Causative Verbs | 第83-88页 |
| 4．4．3 Help | 第88-90页 |
| 4．4．4 Let | 第90-93页 |
| 4．4．5 FIND | 第93-94页 |
| 4．4．6 Know | 第94-95页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION | 第95-98页 |
| 5．1 MEANING DENOTED BY BARE INFINITIVE | 第95页 |
| 5．2 COMPARISON OF THE BARE INFINITIVE BETWEEN NEC AND THE OTHER THREE CORPORA | 第95-96页 |
| 5．3 THE FEATURE OF NEC CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF BARE INFINITIVE AFTER FULL VERBS | 第96页 |
| 5．4 IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF NAUTICAL ENOLISH | 第96-98页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENT | 第98-99页 |
| REFERENCES | 第99-101页 |
| APPENDIXES | 第101-102页 |
