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The mismatch between Japanese educational theory and practical usage: An example of the objective marker in the potential expression

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2017, (54), pp.189-201
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

이동철 1 박미금 2

1延辺大学 日本学研究所
2연변대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the phenomenon of alternative usage of ga and wo in the potential expression, based on examples of corpuses collected, and of textbooks/materials that are currently used in Japanese education in universities. To be more specific, the word wo in the construction of “Chinese gerund+dekiru”, which was regarded as a wrong expression, is now used twice as many as ga. This phenomenon seems to be serious because it shows a mismatch between the theoretical and practical usages, and suggests the alternative use of ga and wo in the Japanese education. Furthermore, only ga is allowed to occur when the verb is dekiru theoretically; however wo is also used practically. So we also investigated the reason for such a phenomenon and the possible scenario that the marker wo is used. As a result, we found that the marker wo is used in the case that ga already exists in the sentence. Another case is that the “dekiru” is an alternative expression to “suru” with wo in which ga is preferentially used as an accusative case marker.

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