| ABSTRACT | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-22页 |
| ·Research background | 第13-15页 |
| ·Brief introduction to “adj. and adj.” | 第15-19页 |
| ·Purposes and significance | 第19-20页 |
| ·Research questions | 第20页 |
| ·Layout of the thesis | 第20-22页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第22-37页 |
| ·Detailed introduction to “adj. and adj.” | 第22-25页 |
| ·Coordination of “adj. and adj.” | 第22页 |
| ·Internal structure of “adj. and adj.” | 第22-23页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” as a type of combination | 第23-25页 |
| ·Positional relations of “adj. and adj.” | 第25-30页 |
| ·Positional relations in binomials | 第26-27页 |
| ·Positional relations in adjectives | 第27-30页 |
| ·Syntactic relations of “adj. and adj.” | 第30-37页 |
| ·Symmetry in “adj. and adj.” | 第30-32页 |
| ·X-bar theory relating to “adj. and adj.” | 第32-37页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第37-45页 |
| ·Corpus in this study | 第37-39页 |
| ·Corpus linguistics | 第37-38页 |
| ·Advantages of corpus linguistics | 第38页 |
| ·Corpus used in this study | 第38-39页 |
| ·Statistics | 第39-40页 |
| ·Instruments | 第40-41页 |
| ·MonoConc Pro | 第40页 |
| ·AntConc 3.2 | 第40页 |
| ·SPSS | 第40-41页 |
| ·Procedure | 第41-45页 |
| ·Data collection | 第41页 |
| ·Data selection | 第41-43页 |
| ·Limitations | 第43-45页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第45-77页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in phonology | 第45-50页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in rhythm | 第45-49页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in rhyme | 第49-50页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in syllables | 第50页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in phonetics | 第50-66页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in initial sounds | 第50-58页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in final sounds | 第58-62页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in nuclear vowels | 第62-66页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in morphology | 第66-68页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in word length | 第66-67页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in compound distribution | 第67-68页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles in sense | 第68-75页 |
| ·“Conspicuous-before-inconspicuous” principle | 第69-70页 |
| ·“Positive-before-negative” principle | 第70-71页 |
| ·“Frequent-before-infrequent” principle | 第71-73页 |
| ·Miscellaneous principles | 第73-75页 |
| ·Ranking of “adj. and adj.” coordinating principles | 第75-77页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第77-81页 |
| ·Findings of this research | 第77-79页 |
| ·“Adj. and adj.” coordinating principles generated from this study | 第77-78页 |
| ·Previous principles inapplicable to “adj. and adj.” Combinations | 第78-79页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第79-80页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第80-81页 |
| REFERENCES | 第81-87页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 第87页 |
