| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-12页 |
| Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-28页 |
| ·Introduction | 第13-14页 |
| ·The object of the present study | 第14-17页 |
| ·Current researches and existing problems in the syntactic treatment of verbs in LDs | 第17-23页 |
| ·Current researches | 第17-20页 |
| ·Existing problems | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Rationale and objectives of the present study | 第23-24页 |
| ·Methodology, terminology and data of the present study | 第24-26页 |
| ·General framework of the thesis | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Two Significance of Syntactic Treatment of Verbs in ECLDs | 第28-39页 |
| ·Introduction | 第28页 |
| ·Importance of grammatical information in ECLDs | 第28-33页 |
| ·Dictionaries with grammar and grammar books | 第28-30页 |
| ·Grammatical information and dictionary quality | 第30-31页 |
| ·Grammatical information in general-purpose dictionaries | 第31-32页 |
| ·Grammatical information in learners' dictionaries | 第32-33页 |
| ·Importance of verbs' syntactic features in English learning | 第33-34页 |
| ·Significance of syntactic treatment of verbs in ECLDs: An overview | 第34-35页 |
| ·Significance of syntactic treatment of verbs in ECLDs: The users' perspective | 第35-37页 |
| ·A questionnaire: on syntactic information of verbs and dictionaries' help | 第35-36页 |
| ·Analyses of the questionnaire | 第36-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Contrastive Analysis of Verbs' Syntactic Treatment in Current Mainstream ELDs and in ECLDs | 第39-64页 |
| ·Introduction | 第39-40页 |
| ·Commonly-used measures to present syntactic information in LDs | 第40-44页 |
| ·Illustrative examples | 第40-42页 |
| ·Syntactic modes | 第42-43页 |
| ·Bracketed notes | 第43页 |
| ·Definitions or equivalents | 第43-44页 |
| ·Syntactic treatment of verbs in current mainstream ELDs | 第44-56页 |
| ·An overview | 第44-46页 |
| ·OALD | 第46-49页 |
| ·LDOCE | 第49-52页 |
| ·CCED | 第52-56页 |
| ·Syntactic treatment of verbs in the several current ECLDs | 第56-60页 |
| ·An overview | 第56页 |
| ·NECD | 第56-58页 |
| ·CEMD | 第58-59页 |
| ·SECD | 第59-60页 |
| ·Defects of the several current ECLDs on syntactic treatment of verbs | 第60-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-64页 |
| Chapter Four Syntactic Theories in Syntactic Treatment in LDs | 第64-80页 |
| ·Introduction | 第64-65页 |
| ·Linguistics in Lexicography | 第65-68页 |
| ·Role of linguistics in lexicography | 第65-67页 |
| ·Traditional treatments of linguistic information in lexicography | 第67-68页 |
| ·Theta Theory | 第68-72页 |
| ·The concept of Theta Theory | 第68-70页 |
| ·The application of Theta Theory in syntactic treatment in LDs | 第70-72页 |
| ·Valency Grammar | 第72-79页 |
| ·The concept of Valency Grammar | 第72-76页 |
| ·The application of Valency Grammar in syntactic treatment in LDs | 第76-79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-80页 |
| Chapter Five Proposed Model for Syntactic Treatment of Verbs in ECLDs | 第80-103页 |
| ·Introduction | 第80-81页 |
| ·Significance of employing learner corpora in verbs' syntactic treatment | 第81-84页 |
| ·What is corpus | 第81页 |
| ·The role of corpora and learner corpora in lexicography | 第81-82页 |
| ·Corpora with grammatical tagging | 第82-84页 |
| ·Error analysis of verbs' syntactic patterns based on learner corpora | 第84-88页 |
| ·The necessity of EA of verbs' syntactic patterns | 第84-85页 |
| ·General principles of EA in practice | 第85-87页 |
| ·EA of verbs' syntactic patterns based on learner corpora | 第87-88页 |
| ·A tentative verb syntactic treatment model for ECLDs based on syntactic theories | 第88-101页 |
| ·The maximal construction suit and the minimal construction suit | 第88-91页 |
| ·General ways of verb classification and basic syntactic patterns | 第91-96页 |
| ·Sufficiency and conciseness: the qualifications of syntactic treatment model | 第96-97页 |
| ·A tentative verb syntactic treatment model for ECLDs | 第97-100页 |
| ·Overview | 第97-98页 |
| ·Relative morphological codes | 第98-99页 |
| ·Manipulative syntactic modes | 第99-100页 |
| ·Positioning of syntactic modes in the entry | 第100页 |
| ·Application of verb syntactic treatment model in ECLDs | 第100-101页 |
| ·Summary | 第101-103页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第103-109页 |
| ·General views in retrospect | 第103-105页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第103页 |
| ·Major issues solved in the present study | 第103-105页 |
| ·Significance of verbs' syntactic treatment in ECLDs | 第103-104页 |
| ·Verbs' syntactic treatment in several current ECLDs | 第104-105页 |
| ·The application of Theta Theory and Valency Theory in verbs' syntactic treatment | 第105页 |
| ·A tentative verb syntactic treatment model for ECLDs | 第105页 |
| ·Implications of the present study | 第105-107页 |
| ·The role of syntactic achievement in lexicography | 第106页 |
| ·The reference of the successful experience in ELDs | 第106页 |
| ·The use of learner corpora in LD compilation | 第106-107页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第107-108页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第108-109页 |
| Bibliography | 第109-115页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第115-118页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第118-124页 |
