| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第14页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-35页 |
| ·Basic Components of English NPs | 第16-22页 |
| ·Determiner | 第16-18页 |
| ·Head | 第18-19页 |
| ·Premodifier | 第19-21页 |
| ·Postmodifier | 第21-22页 |
| ·Pattern Grammar | 第22-26页 |
| ·Definition of Pattern | 第23-24页 |
| ·Lexical Phrases and Pattern Grammar | 第24-25页 |
| ·Application of Pattern Grammar to Pedagogy | 第25-26页 |
| ·Review of Classifications of NP Structures | 第26-32页 |
| ·Quirk's Classification of NP Structures | 第26-27页 |
| ·Biber's Classification of NP Structures | 第27-28页 |
| ·Classification of NP Structures in IBM Grammar | 第28-30页 |
| ·Classification of NP Structures in Current Study | 第30-31页 |
| ·Definition of NP Length in Current Study | 第31-32页 |
| ·Review of Previous Studies on NP Structures | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第35-47页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Corpus Used in the Study | 第36-41页 |
| ·The Composition of ICE-GB | 第37-39页 |
| ·Part-of-speech Tagging of ICE-GB | 第39-40页 |
| ·Syntactic Marking of ICE-GB | 第40-41页 |
| ·Tools for Data Processing | 第41-42页 |
| ·Procedure for Data Collection | 第42-47页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第47-77页 |
| ·The Overall Distributions of NPs in ICE-GBW | 第47-53页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies and Distributions of NPs in ICE-GBW | 第47-48页 |
| ·Distributions of NPs in Different Lengths | 第48-52页 |
| ·Frequencies and Distributions of Simple NPs and Complex NPs | 第52-53页 |
| ·Structures and Distributions of Simple NPs in ICE-GBW | 第53-57页 |
| ·Distributions of Simple NPs | 第53-54页 |
| ·Distributions of Different Types of Heads | 第54-55页 |
| ·Top Ten Most Frequent Simple NP Patterns | 第55-57页 |
| ·Features of Simple NPs in Written English | 第57页 |
| ·Structures and Distributions of Complex NPs in ICE-GBW | 第57-77页 |
| ·Distributions of Complex NPs in Different Structures | 第57-60页 |
| ·Distributions of NPs of Type Premodifier+Head | 第60-66页 |
| ·Types of Premodifier | 第60-63页 |
| ·NPs with Multiple Adjective Premodifiers | 第63-65页 |
| ·Features of NPs of Type Premodifiers+Head | 第65-66页 |
| ·Distributions of NPs of Type Head+Postmodifier | 第66-70页 |
| ·Distributions of Different Types of Postmodifiers | 第66-68页 |
| ·Ten Most Frequent NP Patterns Containing Only Postmodifier | 第68-70页 |
| ·Features of NPs of Type Head+Postmodifier | 第70页 |
| ·Distributions of NPs of Type Premodifier+Head+Postmodifier | 第70-77页 |
| ·Ten Most Frequent NP Patterns with Both Premodifier and Postmodifier | 第70-73页 |
| ·Distributions of Different Postmodifiers in NPs of Type Premodifier+ Head+Postmodifier | 第73-75页 |
| ·Features of NPs of Type Premodifier+Head+Postmodifier | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第77-81页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第77-78页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第78-79页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Studies | 第79-81页 |
| References | 第81-84页 |
| Appendices | 第84-96页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第96-97页 |
| Resume | 第97页 |
