副詞「ずっと」の使用実態 -日本語母語話者と韓国人学習者の使用を比較して-

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to research the pattern of instances in which the adverb “zutto” is used a comparative adverb or a adverb of time, and based on these findings, to suggest some effective ways to teach students about the adverb “zutto”. This paper examines native and non-native speakers’ usages of adverb “zutto” in native and non-native speakers’ corpora. KY corpus consists of spoken data which are collected from non-native speakers’ taking an OPI. Uemura corpus also consists of spoken data which are collected from native speakers’ taking an OPI. YNU corpus and Kokken corpus consist of written data which are collected from native and non-native speakers’ essays. In this paper, the meanings of “zutto” was described with comparing learners’ usages with native Japanese speakers’ ones. With regard to the meanings of “zutto”, 58 instances of native speakers’ usages were defined expressing the continuation of action as a adverb of time, and 4 instances of native speakers’ usages were defined as a comparative adverb in the comparative sentences. Korean learners used in the data “zutto” 67 instances as a adverb of time and used in the data “zutto” 18 instances as a comparative adverb. The instances of non-native learners show some unnatural usages, which cannot be explained. The following results were drawn: (1) Native speakers frequently used the adverb “zutto” to express adverbs of time as “zutto+shiteiru form”. (2) Native speakers used the comparative adverb “zutto” as “~yori zutto+adjective” or “~no houga zutto+adjective” in the comparative sentence. Based on above results this paper suggests some effective ways to teach students about the adverb “zutto”.