동사적 명사를 포함한 일본어 명사술어문에 관한 일고찰

Abstract

This study examines verbal nouns that appear in the predicate of Japanese nominal sentences. Verbal nouns here refer to nouns derived from verbs. Semantically, they can express dynamic events unique to verbs, but syntactically, unlike verbs, they have the ability to assign cases. can function as a case component only through co-occurrence with a case particle. However, in some Japanese nominal sentences, the verbal noun that appears in the predicate behaves as if it were giving a case to co-occurring syntactic elements. As already mentioned, nouns derived from verbs are nouns in terms of parts of speech, so it is well known that cases cannot be assigned to co-occurring syntactic elements. For example, “解決法をお分かりでしょうか” and “私､修了試験に合学です”, despite the fact that nouns derived from contingent nouns or Chinese verbs appear in the predicate of the noun sentence, the target of the action is the particle. At first glance, it presents a syntactically inconceivable aspect of being expressed by “を” and “に”. Therefore, in this research, the syntactic and semantic characteristics unique to verbal nouns, which have both properties as nouns and properties as verbs, lie hidden in the background of such constructions. This kind of duality of verb-like nouns, along with the syntactic contraction that restricts their specification alone and their co-occurrence with adverbs and other adverbs, is a noun derived from a verb. We argues that this is largely due to imperfect autonomy as a noun, such as the inability to inherit lexical meaning.