心理動詞の使役性 : 日英仏語の比較研究

There is a striking contrast between Japanese psychological verbs (psych-verbs) that are essentially Experiencer-as-Subject verbs and English psych-verbs that are mostly Experiencer-as-Object verbs. French psych-verbs share both properties in that they are basically EO verbs, but can alternate into ES verbs by a lexical binding operation. This paper aims to characterize the lexical semantic properties of the psych-verbs of each language and to give an account of the fact that English psych-verbs do not undergo the lexical detransitivization corresponding to French lexical reflexivization. It is proposed that the Causer of English cannot take the feature +PSYCH, so that the lexical binding never takes place between the Causer and the +PSYCH argument. We suggest that this is related to the basic semantic view of English that human emotions are beyond the conscious control of the individual.There is a striking contrast between Japanese psychological verbs (psych-verbs) that are essentially Experiencer-as-Subject verbs and English psych-verbs that are mostly Experiencer-as-Object verbs. French psych-verbs share both properties in that they are basically EO verbs, but can alternate into ES verbs by a lexical binding operation. This paper aims to characterize the lexical semantic properties of the psych-verbs of each language and to give an account of the fact that English psych-verbs do not undergo the lexical detransitivization corresponding to French lexical reflexivization. It is proposed that the Causer of English cannot take the feature +PSYCH, so that the lexical binding never takes place between the Causer and the +PSYCH argument. We suggest that this is related to the basic semantic view of English that human emotions are beyond the conscious control of the individual