「もらう」と「受ける」の使い分けについて

Abstract

In this paper, in order to show Japanese language learners how to use ‘morau’ and ‘ukeru’, I considered the relationship between meanings in each word from the perspective of semantic extension and compared the central and peripheral meanings of these two words. As a result, the following four points were derived. 1) There is a giver in the event represented by ‘morau’, but there is not necessarily a giver in the event represented by ‘ukeru’. This is because the event represented by ‘morau’ cannot be established without the subject giving the object, but the event represented by ‘ukeru’ can be established without the subject giving the object. 2) The object of ‘morau’ is a thing, and the object of ‘ukeru’ is an event. 3) ‘Morau’ implies “receiving a thing from the giver” or an event similar to this, and ‘ukeru’ implies “whether or not there is a response to the event represented by the object”. 4) ‘Morau’ implies “making the object my own”, but ‘ukeru’ does not have such an implication.