Open AccessThe Argument and Semantic Structures of Japanese Verb Give
Author(s) -
I Gede Oeinada,
Ni Luh Sutjiati Beratha,
I Nengah Sudipa,
Made Sri Satyawati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.17507/tpls.1103.03
Subject(s) - linguistics , verb , argument (complex analysis) , meaning (existential) , causative , natural (archaeology) , computer science , modal verb , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , psychology , philosophy , history , chemistry , archaeology , psychotherapist , biochemistry
This study examines four Japanese synonymous verbs that have the same equivalent in English, namely GIVE. These four Japanese synonymous verbs are ageru, kureru, kizou suru, and kifu suru. This study used a qualitative descriptive method. Example sentences for the data were taken from Balance Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese corpus data. The theories applied in this study are argument structure theory and Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory. Based on the analysis, there were selectional restrictions found in the argument structure of these synonymous verbs that can be used to distinguish one verb from another. In addition, these synonymous verbs, although there are some overlapping meaning components, have distinctive meaning components belonging to each verb. Therefore, it can be said that these synonymous verbs cannot fully replace each other in all contexts.