| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-14页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第8-9页 |
| ·Key terms to be clarified | 第9-12页 |
| ·The definition of N1+N2 compounds and distinction between compounds and phrases in English | 第9-11页 |
| ·The definition of N1+N2 compounds | 第9-10页 |
| ·The distinction between compounds and phrases | 第10-11页 |
| ·The definition of N1+N2 compounds and distinction between compounds and phrases in Chinese | 第11-12页 |
| ·The definition of N1+N2 compounds | 第11页 |
| ·The distinction between compounds and phrases | 第11-12页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-23页 |
| ·Traditional Approaches | 第14-16页 |
| ·Hu zhuanglin’s view | 第14-15页 |
| ·Packard’s view | 第15-16页 |
| ·Cognitive approaches | 第16-21页 |
| ·Ungerer and Schmid’s categorization | 第16-19页 |
| ·Fauconnier’s conceptual integration theory | 第19-20页 |
| ·Other cognitive researches | 第20-21页 |
| ·Summary | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter Three A Contrastive Analysis of N1+N2 Compounds in English and Chinese | 第23-35页 |
| ·Similarities between N1+N2 compounds in English and Chinese | 第23-28页 |
| ·Multi-morpheme Compounds | 第23-24页 |
| ·Non-separability | 第24页 |
| ·Motivations for compounding | 第24-25页 |
| ·Features of compounding | 第25-28页 |
| ·Differences between N1+N2 compounds in English and Chinese | 第28-33页 |
| ·Morphological differences | 第28-29页 |
| ·Differences in semantic relations | 第29-33页 |
| ·Summary | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Toward a Focus-based Interpretation | 第35-44页 |
| ·Head of the compound | 第35-37页 |
| ·Structural head vs. semantic head | 第37-39页 |
| ·Phonetic features and meaning expression | 第39-42页 |
| ·A comprehensive solution to the N1+N2 compounds in English and Chinese | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions and suggestions | 第44-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-49页 |
