| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-8页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第8-13页 |
| ·RATIONALE OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第8-10页 |
| ·Learners’ difficulties in learning English nouns | 第8-9页 |
| ·Problems in current learner’s dictionaries | 第9-10页 |
| ·The necessity of the study | 第10页 |
| ·RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND OBJECTIVES | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research questions | 第10页 |
| ·Research objectives | 第10-11页 |
| ·RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第11页 |
| ·LAYOUT OF THE THESIS | 第11-13页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第13-20页 |
| ·GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION IN ELDS | 第13页 |
| ·GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION OF ENGLISH NOUNS | 第13-18页 |
| ·Classification of English nouns | 第13-16页 |
| ·Number of English nouns | 第16-18页 |
| ·GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION OF NUMBER OF ENGLISH NOUNS IN ELDS | 第18-19页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第19-20页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第20-33页 |
| ·LANGUAGE TRANSFER | 第20-25页 |
| ·Concept of language transfer | 第20-23页 |
| ·Manifestation of language transfer | 第23-25页 |
| ·MARKEDNESS THEORY | 第25-28页 |
| ·CONCEPTUAL TRANSFER | 第28-32页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第32-33页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR COMPARISON OF NUMBER MARKEDNESS BETWEEN CHINESE AND ENGLISH NOUNS | 第33-40页 |
| ·MARKEDNESS OF NUMBER CATEGORY OF ENGLISH NOUNS | 第33-37页 |
| ·Number of individual nouns | 第33-34页 |
| ·Number of collective nouns | 第34-35页 |
| ·Number of material nouns | 第35-36页 |
| ·Number of abstract nouns | 第36-37页 |
| ·EXPRESSION AND MARKEDNESS OF CHINESE NOUNS | 第37-38页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第38-40页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE COMPARISON OF TREATMENTS OF GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION IN NUMBER OF ENGLISH NOUNS BETWEEN ELDS AND ECLDS | 第40-47页 |
| ·WAYS OF PRESENTING NUMBER OF ENGLISH NOUNS IN ELDS | 第40-43页 |
| ·Treatment of collective nouns | 第40-41页 |
| ·Treatment of material nouns | 第41-42页 |
| ·Treatment of abstract nouns | 第42-43页 |
| ·WAYS OF PRESENTING NUMBER OF ENGLISH NOUNS IN ECLDS AND THE EXISTING PROBLEMS | 第43-45页 |
| ·DESIRED MODEL OF PRESENTING NUMBER OF ENGLISH NOUNS IN CHINESE-SPECIFIC ECLDS | 第45-46页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第46-47页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第47-49页 |
| ·MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第47-48页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES | 第48-49页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第49-50页 |
| REFERENCES | 第50-53页 |
| APPENDIX | 第53页 |
