| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第9-12页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第12页 |
| ·Methodology | 第12-15页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第12-14页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第14页 |
| ·Focuses | 第14页 |
| ·Difficulties | 第14-15页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-27页 |
| ·Survey of the word classes and the criteria for word classes' identification | 第16-18页 |
| ·A survey of multicategorization and related research | 第18-26页 |
| ·Different viewpoint groups to multicategorization phenomenon | 第20-23页 |
| ·The characteristics of multicategorization | 第23-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第27-40页 |
| ·The development of category theory | 第27-32页 |
| ·The Classical Theory of Categories | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Prototype Theory | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Dynamic Categorization Theory | 第30-32页 |
| ·Usage-based Theory | 第32-38页 |
| ·Entrenchment | 第34-35页 |
| ·Conventionalization | 第35-37页 |
| ·Token frequency and type frequency | 第37-38页 |
| ·A tentatively constructed unified framework | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第40-61页 |
| ·Introduction | 第40页 |
| ·Results | 第40-47页 |
| ·The token frequency of the queer with different word classes | 第40-45页 |
| ·The type frequency of queer in the different word classes | 第45-47页 |
| ·Discussion | 第47-59页 |
| ·Discussion from linguistic philosophy and cognitive linguistic perspective | 第48-50页 |
| ·Toke frequency on the multicategorization of the word queer | 第50-52页 |
| ·Type frequency on the muliticategorization of the word queer | 第52-54页 |
| ·Usage register influence on multicategorization of the word queer | 第54-59页 |
| ·Implications for lexicography | 第59-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-61页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第61-65页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第61-63页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第63-64页 |
| ·Suggestions for future study | 第64-65页 |
| References | 第65-71页 |
| Appendices | 第71-91页 |
| Appendix 1: Concordance lines of verb queer in COCA | 第71-73页 |
| Appendix 2: Concordance lines of noun queer in COCA | 第73-88页 |
| Appendix 3: Concordance lines of verb queer in COHA | 第88-91页 |
