| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-15页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Three-word Prepositions | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance and Purpose of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Corpus and Methods Used in the Study | 第11-14页 |
| ·Layout | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Background | 第15-28页 |
| ·Classification of Prepositions | 第15页 |
| ·Frequent Use of Prepositions | 第15-18页 |
| ·Distribution of Major Function Word Classes | 第16-17页 |
| ·The Most Frequent Prepositions | 第17-18页 |
| ·Classification of Complex Prepositions | 第18-20页 |
| ·Two-word Prepositions | 第18-19页 |
| ·Three-word Prepositions | 第19-20页 |
| ·Characteristics of Three-word Prepositions in Comparison with Simple Prepositions | 第20-22页 |
| ·Usage and Function of Three-word Prepositions and Other Prepositions | 第22-25页 |
| ·Identification of Three-word Prepositions | 第25-28页 |
| ·Lexical Criterion | 第25-26页 |
| ·Syntactic Criteria of Cohesiveness | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Syntactic Analyses on the Compositions of Three-word Prepositions | 第28-44页 |
| ·Characteristics of the Structure of Three-word Prepositions | 第28-29页 |
| ·In Respect of the Noun | 第29-36页 |
| ·Singular Form and Plural Form | 第30页 |
| ·Nouns Have Premodifier | 第30-36页 |
| ·In Respect of the First Preposition | 第36-40页 |
| ·In Respect of the Second Preposition | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter 4 Corpus-based Quantitative Analyses on Three-word Prepositions | 第44-56页 |
| ·Collocability of Three-word Prepositions | 第44-46页 |
| ·Quantitative Identification of Three-word Prepositions | 第46-49页 |
| ·Contrastive analyses of Three-word Prepositions | 第49-56页 |
| ·Comparison of Three-word Preposition in Actual Use and in Grammar Books | 第49-54页 |
| ·Distribution in Spoken Corpus | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第56-60页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第60-61页 |
| Published Paper During Degree Study | 第61-62页 |
| Reference | 第62-63页 |
| Curriculum Vitae | 第63页 |
