A Corpus-Based Investigation of the Canonical Order of Manner and Resultative Adverbs

• Nanba Emi

  Nagoya University

• Tamaoka Katsuo

  Nagoya University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• コーパス検索による様態と結果の副詞の基本語順の検討
• コーパス ケンサク ニ ヨル ヨウタイ ト ケッカ ノ フクシ ノ キホン ゴジュン ノ ケントウ

Abstract

In the Japanese language, an adverb has several options as to where it can be grammatically located within a sentence. For manner and resultative adverbs in Japanese, Koizumi and Tamaoka (2006) claim that the canonical word order for a sentence containing either adverb type is SAdvOV and SOAdvV respectively. The current study aims to validate this proposal by using a newspaper corpus search to demonstrate which word order is dominant for each of these two adverb types. The results of the corpus search revealed that manner adverbs (N=23) had a similar distribution between SAdvOV (48.4%) and SOAdvV (50.0%) word orders within the corpus. For resultative adverbs (N=17), on the other hand, the SAdvOV (18.0%) word order appeared infrequently while the SOAdvV (80.7%) order was overwhelmingly more frequent. Consequently, while the canonical order for manner adverbs cannot currently be distinguished between SAdvOV and SOAdvV, the canonical order for resultative adverbs is clearly established as SOAdvV.

Journal

• GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan)

  GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan) 150 (0), 173-181, 2016

  The Linguistic Society of Japan

Keywords

• 様態の副詞
• 結果の副詞
• 基本生起位置
• コーパス研究
• 共起頻度

Details

• CRID: 1390001205122725376
• NII Article ID: 130005282071
• NII Book ID: AN00077625
• DOI: 10.11435/gengo.150.0_173
• ISSN: 21856710
• ISSN: 00243914
• NDL BIB ID: 027745447
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/027745447
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027745447
• Text Lang: ja
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