感情・感覚形容詞の新しいミ形について ― Twitter上の使用に注目して ―

Abstract

The purpose of the current study is to clarify the characteristics of the new suffix -み(-mi) of emotional and sensory adjectives on Twitter. By counting all of the three days’ (Nov. 15, 2019; Dec. 15, 2019; Jan. 15, 2020) tweets of emotional and sensory adjectives, this paper found out the following three things: (1) emotional and sensory adjectives expressing the subject's emotions, such as “happy(嬉しい), painful(つらい), and sleepy(眠い)” are likely to be attached to the new suffix -み(-mi), whereas emotional and sensory adjectives representing the nature of the object, such as “horrifying(恐ろしい), cold(冷たい), and hot(熱い)” are unlikely to be attached to the new suffix -み(-mi); (2) the new suffix -み(-mi) has a “verb function” in addition to the“nominal function” and “adjective function”; and (3) the suffix -み(-mi) was used as an “adjective function” for more than 50% while the “verb function” was less than 1% on Twitter.