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The Relation between the Spatial Meaning of Nouns and the Motion Verbs "Iku", "Tsuku" and "Mukau" :Based on the results of an acceptability judgment testing

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2016, (48), pp.33-48
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

SHIN JEONGEUN 1

1筑波大学大学院

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of nouns that express a spatial meaning when combined with motion verbs, even though they normally do not convey that meaning.Furthermore, this paper examines how the degree of the shift to the spatial meaning differs between different nouns and the reasons for that difference. In order to examine these phenomena, I conducted a survey among Japanese native speakers, using a questionnaire that contained sentences with motion expressions. The results of the survey indicate that the degree of acceptability is higher with some nouns than with others, regardless of the verbs. However, since in the case of iku ‘go’, tsuku ‘arrive’ and mukau ‘move toward’, the degree of acceptability varies depending on the nouns they are combined with, it can be said that the type of verb also affects acceptability. Furthermore, the results of the survey show that the reasons for differences in the degrees of acceptability are closely related to semantic characteristics of motion verbs, the degree of motion, and size of the physical objects of nouns.

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