構文の選好性の相違から見る分裂構文、非分裂構文と「ノダ」構文

Abstract

This study is based on the investigation of the Chinese-Japanese Bilingual Corpus. My investigation shows that in Chinese and Japanese language there are different constructions even though they are used to express the same situation. In Chinese, the cleft construction “…de shi…” is not always translated into the Japanese cleft construction “…nowa…da”, but sometimes is translated as the “noda” construction or non-cleft construction. The difference in preference depends on the differences in focused elements, word order, and subjectivity between the two languages.