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Abstract
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1.1 Motivations and scope of this research
1.2 Research methodology and data collection
1.3 Feasibility of iconicity in word order
1.4 A brief sketch of the chapters
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Studies on word order at large
2.1.1 Typological descriptions
2.1.2 (Typological-)Functional accounts
2.1.3 Semantic-functional accounts
2.1.4 Cognitive accounts
2.2 Previous studies on the order of coordinate idioms
2.3 Previous studies on the order of prenominal modifiers within a noun phrase
2.4 Discussion and summary
CHAPTER THREE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK:ICONICITY AND ICONICITY PRINCIPLES
3.1 Arbitrariness versus Iconicity
3.1.1 Two theories at a deadlock(from ancient Greece to late in the 19th century)
3.1.2 The stage of Saussure's arbitrariness(from early the 20th century to the 1960s)
3.1.3 The stage of post-Saussure's opposition to arbitrariness(from the 1960s to the present)
3.2 Three principles of Iconicity
3.2.1 Distance/Proximity Principle
3.2.2 Quantity Principle
3.2.3 Sequential Order Principle
3.3 Summary
CHAPTER FOUR AN ICONIC ANALYSIS OF WORD ORDER WITHIN COORDINATE IDIOMS
4.1 Definition and general properties
4.2 The analysis of coordinate idioms from Temporal Order Principle
4.2.1 Natural linear order in coordinate idioms
4.2.2 Experiential linear order
4.2.3 Cause-effect /Condition-result order
4.3 The analysis of coordinate idioms from Spatial Order
4.3.1 Egocentric order
4.3.2 Vertical order
4.3.3 Horizontal Order
4.4 An analysis of coordinate idioms from Markedness Order
4.4.1 The unmarked-marked order
4.4.2 The positive-negative order
4.5 Discussion and summary
CHAPTER FIVE AN ICONIC ANALYSIS OF WORD ORDER WITHIN PRENOMINAL MODIFIERS
5.1 Definitions of modifiers within an English noun phrase
5.2 Classifications of modifiers
5.3 Linear order of determiners
5.4 Linear order of adjectivals as prenominal modifiers
5.4.1 The sequence of adjectives, gerunds and nouns as prenominal modifiers
5.4.2 The sequence of gerunds, adjectives and participles as prenominal modifiers
5.4.3 The placement of denominal adjectives as prenominal modifiers
5.5 Gradability degree of prenominal adjectives
5.5.1 Traditional classifications of adjectives
5.5.2 Principles of Gradability Degree
5.5.3 Illustrations
5.6 Discussion and summary
CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION
6.1 Findings
6.2 Limitations and further work
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英语名词短语前置修饰语语序的认知研究