| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Research Background and Motivations | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Scope of This Study | 第13页 |
| ·Research Questions of This Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Data Collection and Methodology of This Study | 第14页 |
| ·Layout of This Paper | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-26页 |
| ·Previous Studies on“Adverb+ Noun”construction between 1930s--1980s | 第16-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on“Adverb+ Noun”Construction ever since 1980s | 第17-23页 |
| ·The Semantic Perspective | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Pragmatic Perspective | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Cognitive Perspective | 第20-22页 |
| ·Other Approaches | 第22-23页 |
| ·Achievements and Limitations of Previous Studies | 第23-24页 |
| ·Why the Construction Grammar Approach is Adopted | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundations | 第26-30页 |
| ·Goldberg’s Concept of Construction | 第26-28页 |
| ·Goldberg’s Coercion Theory | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Four Aspects about the“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第30-38页 |
| ·Different Types of Degree Adverbs in“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第30-33页 |
| ·“Relative Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第31页 |
| ·“Absolute Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第31-33页 |
| ·Different Types of Nouns in“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第33-36页 |
| ·“Degree Adverb+ Abstract Nouns”Construction | 第33页 |
| ·“Degree Adverb+ Concrete Nouns”Construction | 第33-35页 |
| ·“Degree Adverb+ Proper Nouns”Construction | 第35-36页 |
| ·A Summary on the“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Five Construction Grammar Approach to“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第38-62页 |
| ·Overview | 第38页 |
| ·The Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Features of this Construction | 第38-44页 |
| ·The Syntactic Features of“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第38-41页 |
| ·The Semantic and Pragmatic Features of“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第41-44页 |
| ·The Verification of“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第44-49页 |
| ·The Constructional Features of“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第44-47页 |
| ·About its Constructional Meaning | 第47-49页 |
| ·Construction Coercion and“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第49-56页 |
| ·The Coercion in the“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Working Mechanism of the Construction Coercion | 第51-56页 |
| ·Specifications for Nouns in“Degree Adverb+ Noun”Construction | 第56-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-62页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第62-66页 |
| ·Major Findings of This Study | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for the Future Study | 第63-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-72页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文及科研成果 | 第72-73页 |
