場所性を持つ名詞と形式名詞「ところ」について - 容認度調査の結果から -

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discover the factors related to the different degree of acceptability between motion nouns combined with case marker –ni and ‘tokoro’ among the locative nouns. The results of acceptability judgment testing conducted with Japanese native speakers indicate that motion expressions directly combines with case marker –ni showed the different degree of acceptability depending on the factors such as the level of concreteness, directionality and pathway characteristics. Specifically, the nouns with concreteness show higher acceptability degree compared to the nouns without concreteness and the nouns with pathway characteristics show lower acceptability degree than the nouns without pathway characteristics. On the other hands, even the nouns lacking concreteness show higher acceptability degree when they are conveying specific directionality compared to the nouns without directionality. Furthermore, in the case of motion expressions combining with ‘tokoro’, unlike motion expression directly combined with case marker –ni, the pathway characteristics of the nouns can be ignored by the meaning function of ‘tokoro.’ However, their acceptability degree varies on whether the preceding nouns of ‘tokoro’ have or have not the meaning of limited range and peripheral space. Specifically, it can be said that the nouns conveying the meaning of limited range indicate the higher degree of acceptability than the nouns with vague and broad range and the nouns conveying the meaning of peripheral space show the higher acceptability degree than the nouns lacking the meaning of peripheral space.