推測を表す副詞に関する日韓対照研究 - 「たぶん」と「아마도(amado)」の比較から -

Abstract

In this paper, a semantic difference occurred due to a difference in the relationship of co-occurrence and consequent semantic difference targeting ‘たぶん(tabun)’ in Japanese and ‘아마도(amado)’ in Korean that indicate assumption was described. At first, it was confirmed that ‘たぶん’ in Japanese naturallyoccurred together with a form of supposition such as ‘ダロウ(daro)’ but it could not occur together with a form indicating the judgment of ‘evidentiality’ such as ‘ヨウダ(yoda)／ラシイ(rashii)’. On the other hand, it was presented numerically that ‘아마도(amado)’ in the Korean language could occur together with a form of supposition corresponding to ‘ダロウ(daro)’ such as ‘-gess(겠)’ and ‘-lges-i-da(ㄹ 것이다)’ as well as forms such as ‘-geos gat-da(것 같다)’, ‘moyang-i-da(모양이다)’, and ‘-ga boda(가 보다)’ that corresponded to ‘ヨウダ(yoda)／ラシイ(rashii)’. For the semantic characteristics of adverbs caused by sucha difference in co-occurrence, ‘たぶん(tabun)’ in Japanese shows the fixation for usage as an adverb showing ‘probability’ among the epistemic-modality. In other words, it indicates 'assumption’ in the degree of certainty and the existence of proof is not implicit. On the contrary, ‘아마도(amado)’ in the Korean language is not limited to the meaning of probability or evidentiality and its degree of fixation for usage is not significant in comparison to ‘たぶん(tabun)’. In other words, it indicates ‘assumption’ as the speaker's expression of uncertainty for the proposition and the existence of proof is incidental.