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/> This thesis is intended to investigate Chinese EFL learners’ actual use of verb-noun collocations of delexical verbs, aiming at finding out learners’ performance on this language issue by identifying the collocational errors made by learners and the gap between  learners  and  native  speakers.  It  also  aims  to  examine  how  this  type  of collocation  is  represented  in  current  learners’  dictionaries  and  provide  some suggestions  for  improving  the  lexicographic  treatment  of  delexical  verb-noun collocations in ECLDs. To  achieve  the  above  objectives,  this  thesis  attempts  to  answer  the  following questions: 1) What kinds of errors that Chinese EFL learners made in producing delexical verb-noun collocations in writings? What factors are those errors attributable to?      2) How are delexical verb-noun collocations represented in current ECLDs and ELDs? 3) What can dictionary compilers do to improve the representation of delexical verb-noun  collocations  in  ECLDs  in  order  to  better  meet  the  needs  of  Chinese learners? 
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CHAPTER TWO RELEVANT STUDIES ON DELEXICAL VERB-NOUN COLLOCATIONS  

2.1 Features of Delexical Verbs 
There is a linguistic phenomenon that some frequent words in English have very little meaning at all, for example, take, in take a walk, or have, in have a look at something. These words have a tendency to have less of a clear and independent meaning than less frequent words, and their meanings are difficult to identify and explain. With the very  frequent  words,  people  are  reduced  to  talking  about  their  uses  rather  than meanings.  This  tendency  is  called  a  progressive  delexicalization  by  Sinclair (1991:113).The term delexical verbs is also call light verbs or support verbs, which refers to a group of verbs that do not have clear semantic meaning and are usually simple verbs used with high frequency in a language. For sentences containing such a verb, it is hard or impossible to answer the question “What is the particular semantic contribution  of  the  verb  to  the  sentence?”  Gui  Shichun  (2007)  includes  that  these verbs have very little lexical meaning,  and L2 learners usually have no problem in understanding them, but are problematic in producing such collocations. 
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2.2 Verb-noun Collocations of Delexical Verbs in the Field of SLA 
Delexical verbs have a rather wide and vague meaning and can collocate with a wide range of nouns. Their extensive use in language poses problems for second language learners.  This  part  reviews  the  concept  of  collocation  and  explores  the  role  of delexical verb-noun collocation in the field of second language acquisition. Concerning  the  term  collocation,  two  main  views  need  to  be  mentioned  here, which  are  often  called &n本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。