An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute:
A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/
HTML Version(1997)
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II.2.13 A Descriptive Study of the Meaning and Uses
of Japanese Adjectives
(Report 44, 1972. 467 pages)
The purpose of this report was to show some of the results
of an investigation of the meaning and uses of adjectives in
present-day Japanese.
The examples used here are derived from 52 modern literary
works; 24 scientific reports, editorials and essays; 90
magazines published in 1956; and 13 cultural reviews
(1953-54).
Our initial intention was to give concrete descriptions of
word-sets differentiated by distinctive features, however,
little progress was made on this work. At present, generally
it seems more difficult to apply this method to Japanese
adjectives than to Japanese verbs, for a variety of
reasons. (The results are given in the section entitled
"Examples of the Analysis.")
In Part I, some aspects of the meaning of adjectives were
considered.
In Part II, we described in detail the meaning and uses of
some fundamental and polysemous adjectives.
NISIO Toraya directed this research.
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