「してもらう」文の意味・用法 － 受益性の観点から －

Abstract

This paper is making an analysis of the semantic variation of ‘sitemorau’ sentence and also the meaning and usage of this type of sentence are classified. When it comes to beneficialness, the various ways of how it can be realized are discussed. If ‘sitemoratta’ is used, it is a typical type of sentence that expresses beneficialness. If ‘sitemorau’ is used, which is non-past, it is an optative sentence or imperative sentence that wishes to happen after the speech point. Also, ‘sitemorau’ sentence becomes a sentence-final expression when accompanied by bleaching of beneficialness. Diverse aspects of ‘sitemorau’ sentence can be clarified by extracting and analyzing actual examples, without being bound to the category of giving and receiving expression. The classification of the meaning and usage of the ‘sitemorau’ sentence are as follows: 1) typical type : can be converted to ‘sitekureru’ sentence 2) causative type : can be converted to ‘saseru’ sentence 3) 「suru」 type : can be converted to ‘suru’ sentence 4) optative expression : can be converted to ‘sitehosii’ sentence 5) imperative expression : can be converted to ‘sitekudasai’ sentence 6) formal expression : expressing politeness 7) sentence-final expression : fused with succeeding form The various meanings and usages of the ‘sitemorau’ sentence not only demonstrate the variations in beneficialness but also show the transition of the sentence type. A typical ‘sitemorau’ sentence is originally a declarative sentence (monogatari bun), but the ‘sitemoraitai’ sentence, which is an optative expression, shifted into an optative sentence (machinozomi bun) and an imperative expression shifted into a suggesting sentence (sasoikake bun).