様態の変化を表す時間副詞

Abstract

This thesis inquired into both the uses of meanings and the used situations in practice between 「Sidaini·Dandan·Zyozyoni」 that have high frequency as well as are generally used in a newspaper and a fiction and 「Oioi·Zenzi」 that have low frequency among temporal adverbs to express the change of aspects. From among those, it is considered 「Zenzi」 which is not used as the general word of a modern language is substituted for 「Sidaini」･「Dandan」. There are some examples of uses being related to the perfect tense of 「Oioi」 in some fictions, but this word as a modern language is commonly and fixedly used to express an expectation, an intention, and a prospect. 「Zyozyoni」 which has focus of a slow progress of a change express a purposeful slow going in case of an active motion, on the contrary, a slow but steady going in case of the change of natural transition. In the difference between 「Sidaini」 and 「Dandan」 in a style, the former is a general style, while the latter is a more colloquial style.In the difference between 「Sidaini」 and 「Dandan」 in a meaning,the former, which modifies a predicate including completed situation that progressed changes, expresses a gradually completed situation that is accompanied with the passage of time. On the other hand, the latter expresses not only gradual change and a slow going but also a gradual change of a situation in the process of change.