本书为“当代外语研究论丛”之一，主要讨论了英汉程度副词和动词的显著性搭配，并在此基础上分析对比两种语言的搭配限制因素。本书主要包括三部分内容：一是采用语料库语言学的方法，从BNC Baby和LCMC等语料库中提取出英汉语中程度副词和动词的显著性搭配，总结分析其动词的搭配范围；二是分别从语义、句法和韵律的角度分析这些因素如何约束英汉程度副词与动词的搭配；三是比较英汉两种语言中，程度副词与动词搭配的异同，并分析导致异同的原因，从而有助于我们更好地理解英汉语言的特点，适合搭配研究、英汉对比研究和语料库语言学领域的研究者使用。

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