現代日本語の接尾辞「―くさい」のモダリティ的可能性 ―コーパス・小説・ツイッターの用例から―

Abstract

This paper aims to make clear that the modern usages of Japanese suffix “󰠏kusai” origins the expression of olfactory perceptions and seems to gain some modal semantic extention nowadays. Many language have only a few expressions of olfactory perceptions and in spite of the fewness, those expressions refer to provability and seems to have extended semantically, especially in modern Japanese. However, even now there are few researches of the modern Japanese expressions of olfactory perception. Today, this Japanese suffix “󰠏kusai” sometimes works like auxiliary verbs such as “󰠏poi”,”󰠏rashii”, and can mean the subjective proposition without evaluations. It shows active semantic extension especially spoken󰠏written areas like twitter. This research makes clear that Japanese expressions of olfactory perception “󰠏kusai” can refer not only olfactory perception itself but also some prototypical characters of propositions and targets, and its future possibilities to be an auxiliary verb mean the divergent perceived from targets for the subjective standards of who perceive the target.