声明
致谢
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
1.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1.4 Organization
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Prepositions and Polysemy
2.2 Related Studies
2.3 Tyler and Evans’ Principled Polysemy Model
Chapter Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Research Instruments
3.3 Corpora Used
3.4 Research Procedures
Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
4.1 The Semantic Analysis of Through
4.2 Chinese Non-English majors’ Cognitive Semantic Use of through
4.3 Analysis and Discussion
Chapter Five CONCLUSION
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions
参考文献
Appendix 1 Samples from ST3 and ST4
Appendix 2 Samples from COCA
Appendix 3 Tables of Semantic Coding of through