声明
摘要
ABSTRACT
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
1．1 Research Background
1．2 Purpose and Significance of the Study
1．3 Research Questions
1．4 Layout of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2．1 Morphological Structure of English Words
2．1．1 Morphemes
2．1．2 Classifying Morphemes
2．2 Definitions of Affix
2．3 Classification of Affixes
2．3．1 Classification of Afixes in Terms of Function
2．3．2 Classification of Amxes in Terms of Placement
2．4 Classification of Derivational Affixes
2．4．1 Classification of Derivational Prefixes
2．4．2 Classification of Derivational Sumxes
2．5 Other Properties of Affix
2．5．1 Various Grammatical Properties of Affix
2．5．2 Multiple Affix
2．5．3 Tendency in Modern English Affix
2．6 Overview of Study on Affix
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3．1 Methodology
3．1．1 Corpus-based Approach
3．1．2 Corpora Used in the Study
3．1．3 Quantitative and Qualitative Research
3．2 Tools for Data Processing
3．2．1 Visual FoxPro
3．2．2 Antconc
3．2．3 SPSS
3．3 Procedure of Data Collection and Processing
3．3．1 Lemmatization
3．3．2 Affix Extraction
Chapter 4 Results and Analysis
4．1 General Description of the Prefixes in WECCL_ARG and LOCNESS_ARG
4．1．1 Total Number of the Prefix Types
4．1．2 Word Tokens Formed by Prefixes
4．1．3 Word Types Formed by Prefixes
4．1．4 Top 20 Prefixes Used in Both Corpora
4．2 Different Semantic Categories of Prefixes in LOCNESS_ARG and WECCL_ARG
4．2．1 Frequency Distributions of Different Semantic Categories of Prefix Types
4．2．2 Number of Word Types Formed by Different Semantic Categories of Prefixes
4．2．3 Semantic Categories of the Top 20 Prefixes
4．3 General Description of the Suffixes in WECCL_ARG and LOCNESS_ARG
4．3．1 Total Number of Suffix Types
4．3．2 Word Tokens Formed by Suffixes in LOCNESS_ARG and WECCL_ARG
4．3．3 Total Number of the Word Types Formed by Suffixes
4．3．4 Top 20 Suffixes Used in Two Corpora
4．4 Different grammatical Categories of Suffixes in LOCNESS_ARG and WECCL_ARG
4．4．1 Distributions of Grammatical Categories of Suffix Types in the Two Corpora
4．4．2 Number of Word Types Formed by Different Grammatical Categories of Suffixes
4．4．3 Grammatical Categories of the Top 20 Suffixes
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5．1 Major Findings of the Study
5．2 Pedagogical Implications
5．3 Limitations
5．4 Suggestions for Further Study
References
Appendices
Acknowledgements
Resume
