フレーム意味論に基づく中国語の“防止”と“避免”の類義分析 : 日本語の「防ぐ」・「避ける」との比較を兼ねて

Abstract

In this paper, we compared the synonymous phenomena of two Chinese verbs, Fangzhi (prevent) and Bimian (avoid), with the Japanese verbs, Fusegu (prevent) and Sakeru (avoid), with a selected emphasis on the complex sentences with two clauses. In these two clauses, one represents purpose while the other expresses the method for attaining the purpose. In particular, we classified the negative events of the purpose clause into five subtypes based on several factors pertaining to transitivity, including the number of participants in an event, the activity or non-activity of an event, the agentivity of the subject, and volitionality in an event. Our analysis showed that Japanese was analogous to Chinese on four of the aforementioned subtypes, but they didn’t match in the events with inanimate subjects.