Chapter 1 Introduction
1．1 The significance of collocation
1．2 The study of degree adverbs from a collocational perspective
1．3 The corpus-based approach to contrastive analysis
1．4 Scope and objectives of this book
Chapter 2 Degree Adverbs
2．1 Definition of degree Adverbs
2．2 Classification of degree adverbs
2．2．1 Classification of degree adverbs in English
2．2．2 Classification of degree adverbs in Chinese
Chapter 3 Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Collocation
3．1 Research traditions of collocation
3．2 Conceptual introduction to collocation
3．3 Extraction of collocations
3．4 The nature of collocation restrictions
Chapter 4 Semantic Restrictions on the Collocation of Degree Adverbs with Verbs
4．1 The（un）boundedness of verbs
4．1．1 The（un）boundedness of events with reference to time
4．1．2 The（un）boundedness of events with reference to degree
4．2 A corpus-based investigation of the collocation of degree adverbs with verbs in English
4．2．1 Maximal degree adverbs： completely， absolutely， fully， entirely， totally and perfectly
4．2．2 Approximatives： almost， nearly， virtually and practically
4．2．3 Boosters： greatly， much and very much
4．2．4 Moderators： fairly， pretty， rather and quite
4．2．5 Minimal degree adverbs： slightly
4．3 A corpus-based investigation of the collocation of degree adverbs with verbs in Chinese
4．3．1 Maximal degree adverbs： wanquan
4．3．2 Approximatives： jihu， chadianr and chabuduo
4．3．3 Boosters： hen， feichang， tai， ji and shifen
4．3．4 Moderators： bzjiao and jiao
4．3．5 Minimal degree adverbs： youdian， shao， lue， shaoshao， shaowei and luewei
4．4 Contrasting semantic restrictions on the collocations of degree adverbs with verbs in English and Chinese
4．4．1 The similarities
4．4．2 The differences
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Chapter 5 Structural Restrictions on the Collocation of Degree Adverbs with Verbs
Chapter 6 Prosodic Restrictions on the Collocation of Degree Adverbs with Verbs
Chapter 7 Conclusion
References
Appendices
Index
