| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT (English) | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT (Chinese) | 第6-7页 |
| LIST OF CONTENTS | 第7-9页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第9-10页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Background and Aims of the Present Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·General Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two: Theoretical Background of the Present Study | 第15-29页 |
| ·The Main Principles of the NSM Theory | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Current NSM Model | 第17-24页 |
| ·The Application of the NSM Theory | 第24-28页 |
| ·The NSM explications to lexical semantics | 第24-27页 |
| ·The NSM explications to cultural scripts | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Three: Methodology | 第29-43页 |
| ·Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 第29-30页 |
| ·Types of Corpora | 第30-32页 |
| ·Construction of the Corpus Used in this Thesis | 第32-38页 |
| ·Some Important Terms | 第38-43页 |
| ·Word frequency | 第39页 |
| ·Concordance and key words in context (KWIC) | 第39-40页 |
| ·Collocation and colligation | 第40-41页 |
| ·Semantic prosody and semantic preference | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Four: Data Analysis and Discussion | 第43-67页 |
| ·Dictionary Explanation of happen and fasheng | 第43-44页 |
| ·Distribution of happen and fasheng | 第44-49页 |
| ·Overall distribution of happen and fasheng | 第44-48页 |
| ·Frequencies of happen and fasheng with different meanings | 第48-49页 |
| ·Syntactic Patterns of happen and fasheng | 第49-53页 |
| ·Colligations of happen and fasheng | 第53-57页 |
| ·Semantic Prosody and Collocation of happen and fasheng | 第57-67页 |
| ·Overall semantic prosody of happen and fasheng | 第57-59页 |
| ·Positive semantic prosody of happen and fasheng | 第59-61页 |
| ·Negative semantic prosody of happen and fasheng | 第61-64页 |
| ·Neutral semantic prosody of happen and fasheng | 第64-67页 |
| Chapter Five: Conclusions | 第67-70页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Research | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations | 第68-69页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第69-70页 |
| References | 第70-74页 |
