使役文が表現する因果関係について ─非情物主語の使役文を中心に─

Abstract

In previous studies about causative sentences, reserch topic is given too much importanceabout animate subject sentences not inanimate subject sentences. To complement this point,this study reserched about features and priciple of causative sentences with inanimate subject. First of all, the causality inanimate causative sentences represent can be divided into twotypes, one is the physical causality type and the other is cognitive causality type. The formeris corresponded to the physiological change type and, the latter is corresponded to thepsychological change type. It is pointed that there are three differences of physical causality type and cognitivecausality type. First, though physical causality type has time and space adjacency, cognitivecausality type has not. Second, though in physical causality type the feature of cause is limitedto physical, in cognitive causal type the feature of cause is not limited to psychological. Third, unlike physical causality type, it is seen varieties of causal cohesion power in cognitivecausal type. In the viewpoint of occurrence frequency, physical causal type is accounted 67 and cognitivecausal type is accounted 1298. The reason physical causal type is accounted for the majorityis explained by three differences aforementioned. And there are rare cases that cause human′s behavior not physiological or psychologicalchange. But as they are unconditional behavior or involuntary behavior, we can say theyhave related to pysiological change type and psychological change type.