When Intransitive Sentences and Their Transitive Counterparts (Apparently) Mean the Same Thing in Japanese and Chinese

本稿では, コーパスの実例を挙げながら日本語と中国語における自動詞文と他動詞文の同義表現を分析する。これらの構文の動作主は受影動作主と特徴づけることができ, そして, 非意図的人間と自然の力という二つの場合に分けられることを示す。さらに, これらの非典型的動作主は, [-Volition], [±Action], [+Affected]という共通する意味特徴を持っていることを明らかにする。This paper investigated some cases where intransitive sentences and their transitive counterparts in Japanese and Chinese are apparently synonymous, by examining corpus data. It is argued that the subjects of these transitive sentences can all be characterized as affected agents and that they can be divided into two subclasses: involuntary person and force. Furthermore, these nonprototypical agents are shown to have in common the semantic features [-Volition], [±Action], and [+Affected].論文 Article