2015, Vol., No.43

The Japanese Language Association of Korea 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.0

pISSN : 1229-7275
https://journal.kci.go.kr/jlak

In Modern Japanese, there are two types of desiderative constructions: mizu-ga nomitai and mizu-o nomitai which both mean ‘I want to drink water’. These two constructions have similar meanings, and one can often be replaced by the other. However, there are some cases where replacement is not permitted. This inability is due to the differences in the meanings of the two case particles -ga and -o in the desiderative constructions.In this study, the differences between the '-ga -tai' construction and the '-o -tai' construction are presented. The former expresses spontaneous desideration, and the latter expresses volitional desideration. In this study, many related phenomena such as types of verb, tense restriction, the modification of words, adverb co-occurrence, co-occurrence with the other specific constructions, and the exhaustive listing interpretation of the case particle '-ga' are considered as support for the argument of this study.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the current state of how role language of characters in Japanese manga is reflected in Korean translation by comparing the original version of Japanese manga which is popular in South Korea, with its Korean translation. The following seven hypotheses were verified from the analysis；(1) On the whole, there is a tendency for the role language of characters in Japanese manga not to be reflected in Korean translation. (2) There are many role languages which express gender in the original Japanese version. (3) There is a first personal pronoun to express the generation, gender and era in the original Japanese version. However it is difficult to translate this into Korean because there is no Korean equivalent for it. (4) The role language to express the personality and era is relatively well reflected in Korean translation. (5) It is difficult to reflect the role language expressing the job of characters in the original Japanese version through Korean translation. (6) In the case of English words, short lines are translated in English, and long lines are translated into Korean. (7) Dialect words of Japanese are translated into the standard Korean. In this study, it is indefinite that there are differences in the translation of the role language between each of the translators and the mangas.

This paper aims at contrasting and comparing the negative imperative forms -ma in Korean and -na in Japanese, and clarifying how they differ to each other. This study differs from previous studies in that it examines the negative imperative forms in synchronic,diachronic and syntactic perspective. Past studies consider -ma in Korean and -na in Japanese as the same items. However, they behave quite differently in some syntactic environments. Firstly, -ma in Korean cannot license the strongest negative polarity item pakkey 'only', but -na in Japanese can license the strongest negative polarity item sika 'only'. Secondly, -ma in Korean can be attached to various kinds of items such as verbs, adjectives and adverbial particles, however -na in Japanese can only be attached to verbs. The reason why these differences exist between the two items is that -ma and –na, contrary to the arguments of previous studies, are not identical. More specifically, this paper argues that firstly-na in Japanese has [+NEG] feature, however -ma in Korean only has this feature partially. Secondly, -ma in Korean still has usage as a verb because it has been derived to the negative imperative from the verb mal-ta 'stop'. On the other hand, -na in Japanese has only one usage as a negative imperative because it behaves as negative imperative at the outset.