| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introd uction | 第13-16页 |
| ·Rationale for the Present Research | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第14页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第14-15页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 A Survey of Collocation Studies | 第16-26页 |
| ·Introduction | 第16页 |
| ·Diverse Concepts on Collocation | 第16-20页 |
| ·Lexical Co-occurrence Approach | 第17-18页 |
| ·Text-based Approach | 第18页 |
| ·Corpus-driven Approach | 第18-19页 |
| ·Semantic-based Approach | 第19页 |
| ·Pragmatic-based Approach | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Working Definition of Collocations in This Thesis | 第20页 |
| ·Classification and Structure of Collocations | 第20-22页 |
| ·Classification of Collocations | 第20-22页 |
| ·Collocations Structure:Base and Collocator | 第22页 |
| ·Continuum:Free combinations,Collocations and Idioms | 第22-25页 |
| ·Free Combinations | 第23页 |
| ·Collocations | 第23-24页 |
| ·Idioms | 第24-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25页 |
| Notes to Chapter 2 | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Research into the Treatment of Verb+Noun Collocations inELCDs | 第26-37页 |
| ·Introduction | 第26页 |
| ·An Overview of English Dictionaries of Collocations | 第26-29页 |
| ·The Development of English Monolingual Dictionaries of Collocations | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Development of English-Chinese(or Japanese)Bilingual Dictionaries of Collocations | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Structure of English Dictionaries of Collocations | 第29-30页 |
| ·Approaches of Treatment of Verb+Noun Collocations in the Existing ELCDs | 第30-36页 |
| ·The Lexical-Functions-based Approach | 第30-33页 |
| ·The Grammar-based Approach | 第33-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36页 |
| Notes to Chapter 3 | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter 4 An Optimized Model of the Treatment of Verb+NounCollocatio ns i n ELCDs | 第37-49页 |
| ·Introduction | 第37页 |
| ·The Treatment of Post-verbal Elements in OALD4—the Theoretical Framework | 第37-43页 |
| ·An Introduction of Verb-pattern Scheme in OALD4 | 第37-38页 |
| ·Yerb+Noun Collocations in the Verb-pattern Scheme | 第38-42页 |
| ·The Implications for the Treatment of Verb+Noun Collocations | 第42-43页 |
| ·An Optimized Model of the Treatment of Verb+Noun Collocations | 第43-47页 |
| ·Principle on the Collocator Selection | 第44页 |
| ·Principle on the Collocator Ordering | 第44-45页 |
| ·Principle on the Exemplification | 第45-46页 |
| ·A Sample Entry | 第46-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-48页 |
| Notes to Chapter 4 | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第49-53页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Present Study | 第49-50页 |
| ·Innovations and Limitations | 第50-51页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第51-53页 |
| References | 第53-56页 |
| Papers Published during 2007-2010 | 第56页 |
