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A Descriptive Study about the Subjectivity of Japanese Compound Verbs and their Collocations : A Case Study of the Compound Verb 'V+komu'

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2016, (49), pp.3-23
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

Kim, Kwangsung 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is a case study about the subjectivity related to the usage of Japanese compound verbs. Previous studies about Japanese compound verbs have not dealt with the subjective meaning reflected in the usage of Japanese compound verbs as a main issue. The term ‘subjective meaning’ refers to the meaning based on the construal of a subject. So, this paper attempts to deal with the subjective meaning related to Japanese compound verbs. Especially, the co-occurrence relationship between the Japanese compound verb ‘V+komu’ with figurative meaning and adverbial onomatopoeia was chosen as the main object of the analysis because figurative expressions reflect the subjectivity related to Japanese vividly, and also onomatopoeias enable us to figure out the subjectivity related to Japanese objectively. Using Sketch Engine(JpTenTen11), 10 compound verbs were chosen as objects of a case study because they were the most frequently used verbs. Adverbial onomatopoeias used with ‘V+komu’ were classified in detail based on their meaning. The result shows that adverbial onomatopoeias related to motion and manner are closely involved with the subjective usage of the compound verb ‘V+komu.’

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