山田美妙の言文一致思想と実践* - 『武蔵野』を中心に -

Abstract

The literary style revolution was occurred under the facts being stimulated there were no differences between written and spoken language in the western country in accordance with an inflow of occidental civilization during the Meiji era. The history of the revolution extend over sixty years from 1866 to 1930. Among the rest, Yamada Bimyous, unusual as a man of letters, not only published study books of linguistics, dictionary, etc., but also strongly concerned about the unification of written and spoken language in particular. This article make clear Bimyou's thought about the unification of written and spoken language in priority of 「Genbunittigairyaku」, and also survey and consider a definite aspect of the written and spoken language unification in priority of his practise works named 『Musasino』. ① iisasi sentence; It is able to express as the mode of ending with noun, adverb and auxiliary. In case of ending with a noun, It seems to be omitted a specified word, and any other modes are invert sentences. ② iiowari sentence; It is able to classify as the mode ending with verb, auxiliary verb, adjective and instruct word. The highest frequency is the verb presented 75%, in particular, can't find an archaic word being the same as 「～zu」 「～nu」 in the negative sentences. And also It can be confirmed his attempt for faithful using of colloquial style. The specific words are showd up using of various mode being the same as 「～da」 「～denai」 「～deatta」 「～demonai」 「～dewanai」, etc. even though being in the rare frequency.