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Acquisition, Maintenance, Retention, Loss and Reconstruction of Japanese Aspect Expressions

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2019, (59), pp.209-226
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2019.59.209
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : December 18, 2018
  • Accepted : February 11, 2019
  • Published : March 20, 2019

HWANG, YOUNG HEE 1

1한양사이버대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, I analyzed the process of Japanese acquisition, maintenance, retention, loss and reconstruction of two Korean returnees who learned through the life of childhood in Japan and maintaining Japanese currently at point of the L2 contact history. As a result of dividing the aspect function into four major categories (motion persistence, habit, result state, completion), the structure of the Japanese contact of the individual in the L2 life cycle has the following features in terms of forms and functions. (1) Aspect expressions show continuity between speakers in proportion to the Japanese ability prior to Japanese contact. In terms of form, TEIRU is a unmarked type and the abbreviation TERU is frequently used. Dialectic TEORU is used sporadically in the form of TEORIMASU for speaker B. In other words the standard TE(I)RU type is the center of the aspect system. Additionally dialectic TEORU remains only as a standard type used in honorable usage only a few and it can be seen that analysis in the form of TEORU is not proceeding like colonial Japanese. (2) TA appears as a substitute for completion function and TEIRU is maintained as the usage of the result state function. Speaker B is considered to be difficult to maintain TEIRU because the completion is expressed as TA or RU. The reason why the retention of dialect type TEORU is low because it is inherent in knowledge but it is considered that the learning environment that did not reach the level to be utilized. In terms of number of uses, completion is the least and it can be said that the use of this function is hardly maintained. (3) In the functional aspect, there is a lot of motion persistence and result status. Including habitual usage motion persistence is easy to maintain and extension of the result state usage is likely to lose. There are factors such as the substitution of basic types, addition of adverbs and the transference of Korean after the maintenance period. As a intermediate language of perfect bilingual user Returnee Japanese is being reconstructed while accepting Korean structure and style. Also the number of aspect use of result status usage is maintained at a certain level comparing with that of the colonial Japanese, so that the maintenance of the result status usage is relatively high. As a result, it can be said that the maintenance of TEIRU and abbreviation TERU and the regression of the completion function are acting on the L2 contact history Japanese life cycle of the individual.

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