人主語の使役文と非情物主語の使役文 –コーパスを用いた実証的分析–

Abstract

In this study, I discussed the nature of the subordinate clause and the subject in inanimate subject causative sentence and typical causative sentence. First, I examined 654 cases of typical causative sentence and 688 cases of inanimate subject causative sentence whether or not subject is explicit in sentence. and manifested 296 cases explicit and 358 cases non-explicit in typical causative sentence, although 629 cases explicit and 59 cases non- explicit in inanimate subject sentence. When identifying non-explicit subject, in typical causative sentence the subject can be identified by ① modality form ② assumption of the subject of unspecified public ③estimation from the context. But in inanimate subject causative sentence the subject can be identified just by ③estimation from the context. And it is pointed out the inanimate subject can take not only “form of noun ” but also “form of the clause”, so when identifying the non-explicit subject, several possibilities are open. Also I investigated the presence and function of adnominal elements. As a result of the investigation, cases about 31.58% with adnominal elements and about 68.42% without adnominal elements in typical causative sentence. But cases about 85.4% with and cases about 14.6% without in inanimate subject causative sentence. From such a result I point out adnominal elements maintain natural causal relationship by adding background information or limiting the meaning,It is pointed out that in some subordinate clauses can be omitted as like typical causative sentence, but there is also subordinate clauses can not be omitted in inanimate subject sentence. As a phenomenon in its extension, it was also investigated alternation phenomenon of continuous modification and adnominal modification.