A Contrastive Study of Expressions of Cognitive Change in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Languages

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13033
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University
• Principal Investigator: UEDA Hiroshi 大東文化大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (00733619)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 比較 / 変化 / 単純状態 / 形容詞 / 属性 / -く/になっている / 文末助詞“了” / -key toy-e iss-ta

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The current study considered the conditions affecting the formation of sentences in which two objects are compared using the Chinese sentence-ending particle “le 2”, which describes the simple states, and the Korean expression “-key toy-e iss-ta” (-ku / ni natteiru in Japanese). The main findings were as follows. First, “le 2” is more likely to form cognitive change expressions that describe a simple state than “natteiru.” Second, “-key toy-e iss-ta” cannot be used to represent the cognitive changes that can be represented by “natteiru” or “le 2,” instead of expressing either situations where the speaker understands that the existence of differences between the objects has a reasonable meaning or situations where (as a result) the existence of differences between the objects is itself viewed as a problem.

Free Research Field

中国語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日中韓３言語の変化表現およびそれを含む言語形式「-く/になっている」、文末助詞“了2”、「-key toy-e iss-ta（-く/になっている）が、比較の状況で、実際の変化を読み取れない単純状態を叙述するのに必要な条件を解明することにより、各言語の話者が当該の事態をどのようにとらえて表現しているかを明らかにした。これまでは、２つの対象を眼前で比較する状況で、話し手が認識上の変化を読み込むための条件について、十分な考察がおこなわれてこなかったが、本研究を実施することにより、その一端を明らかにすることができた。