현대일본수필에 나타난 「문말ものだ」에 관한 연구

Abstract

With the exception of examples containing grammatical forms that affect the classification of meanings and “independent noun mono+da” (353 examples) that can stand alone without using “sentence-final monoda,” out of the total of 1,100 examples of “sentence-final monoda” collected in 33 modern Japanese essays, 333 examples of “sentence-final mood monoda” are used in this research to specify the classification of adverbs, conjunctions, and postpositions that end with monoda and the characteristics of the position of monoda in sentences. According to the classification, “sentence-final mood monoda” can be seen in 115 decisive sentences, 92 explanative sentences, 69 retrospective sentences, 27 generalization sentences, 23 exclamatory sentences, and 7 normative sentences. Retrospective, generalization, exclamatory, and normative sentences all end with “sentence-ending mood monoda” without exceptions. The difference between the usages of “decisive” and “generalization" is that in the “decisive” type of sentence, the flavor of “generalization” is little, if any, and that in the “generalization” type of sentence, even though it might be interpreted as an asserted sentence, it would be more naturally interpreted as “generalization.” “Decisive,” “explanative,” retrospective,” “generalization,” “exclamatory,” and “normative” sentences can either explain the sentence listed before (“prior explanation”) or after (“posterior explanation”). Sometimes the explanation is listed within the monoda-sentences, but they are present only in “explanative” sentences.