著者

佐藤 琢三

出版者

日本言語学会

雑誌

言語研究 (ISSN:00243914)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1999, no.116, pp.1-21, 1999

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Japanese has been described as a&ldquo;<i>naru-language</i>&rdquo;which emphasizes intransitive over transitive expressions. But many areas of the semantic range of <i>naru</i>(become)have not been fully investigated. This paper analyzes and provides a full description of one of these.<br>Although <i>natteiru</i>(having become)literally means a state which has come to exist as a result of change, there are some sentences in Japanese in which it actually describes a simple state. This paper classifies this phenomenon from the viewpoint of the recognition of a perceived state and concludes that the sentences in question explain cause/reason, function, or composition of the perceived state.<br>The basic meaninig of <i>naru</i> denotes the attainment of some sort of state in the real world. This paper regards the meaning of the sentenses concerned as a metaphorical extention from the real world to mentally constructed world predication.