Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Significance of the study
1.3 Purpose of the study
1.4 Structure of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature review
2.1 Brief introduction to corpus linguistics
2.2 Semantic prosody
2.3 Collocation and colligation
2.4 Semantic preference and semantic prosody
2.5 Causative verbs
Chapter Three Research methodology
3.1 The Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis approach
3.2 The Item-Environment method
3.3 Corpora
3.4 Data collection and research procedures
Chapter Four Data analysis and discussion
4.1 Study of MAKE
4.2 Study of KEEP
4.3 Study of LET
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations and suggestions
参考文献
Appendices
致谢
攻读硕士学位期间的研究成果