声明
Abstract
摘要
Table of Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
1.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Organization of the Study
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Previous Studies of Verbs
2.1.1 Studies of verbs in English
2.1.2 Studies of Verbs in Chinese
2.2 Review of Frame Semantics
2.3 Review of the FrameNet
Chapter Three Research Questions and Methodology
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Frame-based Analysis
3.2.1 English Verbs within Event Frame of the English FrameNet
3.2.2 Chinese Verbs within Event Frame of the Chinese FrameNet
3.3 Contrastive Analysis
3.4 Corpus-based Analysis
Chapter Four Research Results
4.1 Verbs within Event Frame in English and in Chinese FrameNets
4.2 Results of the Contrastive Analysis
4.2.1 Similarities of Verbs within Event Frame between English and Chinese
4.2.2 Differences of Verbs within Event Frame between English and Chinese
4.3 New Verb Classification within Event Frame of Chinese FrameNet
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Contributions of the Study
5.3 Limitations of the Study
References
Appendix One
Appendix Two
Appendix Three
Acknowledgements