著者

村木 正武

出版者

神田外語大学

雑誌

言語科学研究 : 神田外語大学大学院紀要 (ISSN:13476203)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.7-18, 1998-03

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Lift a finger, a red cent, etc. in English mean yubi ippon ugokasu, bita itimon, etc. in Japanese, while mettani, kessite, etc. do not correspond to any English words. Mettani-nai, kessite-nai, etc. are equivalent to English rarely, never, etc. This paper tries to clarify the behavior of these two types of negatives.