量の副詞と共起する日本語複合動詞の特性に関する考察

Abstract

Previous studies about Japanese compound verbs mainly focused on the word-formation or semantic extension. But, to properly understand the usage of Japanese compound verbs, it is necessary to get to know how Japanese compound verbs are actually being used in real context. To deal with this problem, this paper focused on the context in which Japanese compound verbs are being used. Specifically, the semantic relationship between quantity adverbs and Japanese compound verbs was examined. Previous studies related to adverbs rarely dealt with quantity adverbs. So, it was necessary to analyze the basic usage of quantity adverbs. This paper, first, analyzed the quantity adverbs which co-occurs with Japanese compound verbs in terms of frame semantics because frame-semantic approach could provide relatively systematic framework of the analysis. And, second, it was analyzed how the co-occurrence of quantity adverbs and Japanese compound verbs are motivated semantically. As a result, it was revealed that there are semantic motivation to the co-occurrence. Also, it was found that there is some sort of inclination to the co-occurrence in terms of its evaluative aspect. The co-occurrence of quantity adverbs and Japanese compound verbs is quite difficult to grasp for Japanese learners because its usages have subtle aspects. In this analysis, NLT was used to understand the relatively objective frequency and logDice of the co-occurrence of quantity adverbs and Japanese compound verbs. So, the result could be useful even for the Japanese learners. It would be necessary to study more about the co-occurrence of various adverbs and Japanese compound verbs to understand the usage of Japanese compound verbs from new perspective.