意味と形式に関する覚書 : 日本語とベトナム語の時間表現

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This article is aimed at pointing out some notes on the relation between meaning and form or form and meaning by showing facts about how temporal notions that are thought to be common to Japanese and Vietnamese native speakers are organized into certain linguistic forms. In section 2, first of all, I present several interesting facts about temporal notions denoting past, present, and future in both languages; then, I point out that Japanese primarily uses verbal inflection (past and non-past forms or past and present tenses) and, additionally, time adverbials and contextual or situational information while Vietnamese uses a combination of constant (or non-inflectional) verbal forms and time adverbials/contextual or situational information. Secondly, I point out that Vietnamese tends to be contextually or situationally more dependent than Japanese in putting temporal notions into language. Thirdly, I make a brief comment on a difference in "deletability" between Japanese and Vietnamese expressions. In section 3, based on these three crucial points and additional facts about the "deletability" of time-denoting sentences in Japanese and Vietnamese, I further argue how 'shared' temporal notions are organized into Japanese and Vietnamese respectively.
宇都宮大学の論文
2005-03-01