| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Objectives and Significance | 第13页 |
| ·Layout of this Study | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-25页 |
| ·Grammatical Background | 第15-20页 |
| ·Previous Researches on Adjective complementation | 第20-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第25-31页 |
| ·Corpus Used in the Study | 第25-26页 |
| ·Tools for Data Processing | 第26-27页 |
| ·Procedures for Data Collection and Analysis | 第27-31页 |
| ·Processing of the BNC Files | 第27页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第31-66页 |
| ·Adjective Complementation Taking To-clauses | 第31-43页 |
| ·Adjective Complementation by Extraposed To-clauses and Post-predicate To-clauses | 第31-36页 |
| ·Comparison between Adjectives Taking Extraposed To-clauses and Adjectives Taking Post-predicate To-clauses | 第31-35页 |
| ·The Grammatical Patterns of Adjective Complementation by Post-predicate To-clauses | 第35-36页 |
| ·Insertion of For-phrases and Of-phrases between Adjectives and To-clauses | 第36-38页 |
| ·Verb-adjective Combinations in the Main Clauses Occurring with To-clauses | 第38-41页 |
| ·Object Extraposition in Adjective Complementation by To-clauses | 第41-43页 |
| ·Adjective Complementation by That-clauses | 第43-52页 |
| ·Adjectives Taking Extraposed That-clauses and Post-predicate That-clauses | 第43-47页 |
| ·Prepositional Phrases between Adjectives and That-clauses | 第47-48页 |
| ·Verb-adjective Combinations in Adjective Complementation by That-clauses | 第48-50页 |
| ·Object Extraposition in Adjective Complementation by That-clauses | 第50-52页 |
| ·Factors that Affect the Choice between Adjective Complement Clauses | 第52-66页 |
| ·Lexico-grammatical Factors | 第53-57页 |
| ·The Influence of Adjectives | 第53-54页 |
| ·The Influence of Verb-adjective Combinations | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Influence of Object Extraposition | 第56-57页 |
| ·Parallelism between Different Adjective Complement Clauses | 第57-66页 |
| ·Parallelism between Extraposed To-clauses and Extraposed That-clauses | 第57-59页 |
| ·Parallelism between Post-predicate That-clauses and Post-predicate To-clauses | 第59-61页 |
| ·Parallelism between Construction of Subject-to-subject Raising and Extraposed That-clauses | 第61-66页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第66-70页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第66-68页 |
| ·Implications | 第68页 |
| ·Limitations | 第68-69页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第69-70页 |
| References | 第70-75页 |
| Appendices | 第75-98页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第98-99页 |
| Resume | 第99页 |
