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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Significance of the Thesis
1.3 Research Questions of This Thesis
1.4 Layout of This Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Views of the Noun Phrases
2.1.1 Quirk's View
2.1.2 Thompson's View
2.1.3 Radford's View
2.1.4 Biber's View
2.1.5 Summary
2.2 The Theory of Semantic Roles
2.3 The Theory of Corpus-Based Linguistics and Statistics
2.4 The Previous Studies of the Noun Phrases
2.4.1 The Previous Syntactic Studies on the Noun Phrases
2.4.2 The Previous Semantic Studies on the Noun Phrases
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3.1 Corpus based Approach
3.2 The Corpus Used in the Study
3.2.1 FROWN on-line Corpus
3.2.2 MEE Corpus
3.2.3 The Samples for the Study
3.3 Tools for Data Processing
3.4 Procedure for Data Collection
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion
4.1 Contrast of the FROWN and the MEE
4.2 The Nominal Structure of noun+noun and Their Semantic Relatons in the MEE
4.3 The Nominal Structure of noun+noun+noun and Their Semantic Relatons in the MEE
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Conclusions
5.1 Major Findings of the Study
5.2 Pedagogical Implications
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research
References
Appendix Ⅰ
Appendix Ⅱ
Appendix Ⅲ
Acknowledgements
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