<研究論文>日本語学習者のナラティヴ・ディスコースにおける「シテ」形接続の使い方
スポンサーリンク
概要
- 論文の詳細を見る
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the use of the Japanese nonfinite form -te in second language (L2) narratives. Japanese Is a clause-chaining language, in which clauses are connected with nonfinite, and unified with a finite verb. The acquisition of L2 verbal morphology has been examined within two frameworks : the Aspect Hypothesis and the Discourse Hypothesis. The former claims that learners start to use past marking predominantly with achievement verbs which express events that occur at a given time (e.g., break), and progressive morphemes with activity verbs (e.g., walk). The latter states that learners use verbal morphology to distinguish main events from background information in narratives, Nonfinite forms, however, have never been focused on within either hypothesis. The present research is the cross sectional study in which 59 English natives learning Japanese, grouped into three proficiency levels (i.e., novice, intermediate, and advanced), and 20 Japanese natives were requested to narrate a wordless picture book. The distribution patterns of finite and nonfinite verbal morphemes in their narratives were examined in terms of lexical aspect and narrative structure. The major findings were as follows : (a) like the past morpheme, the te-form is frequently attached to achievement verbs, indicating the completion of a punctual event, and (b) the low proficiency learners marked the chronologically sequent events with past regardless of thematic significance, and gradually the te-conjunction emerged to mark the temporally ordered yet thematically insignificant events and past marked the main narrative events (i.e., the temporally ordered and thematically significant events).
- 沖縄大学の論文
- 2000-03-31