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A Comparative Study of the Colligation of the Japanese Degree Adverb “非常に” and “大変”
YUN Zi-tong
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.07.006
Japanese Major, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
The abstract collocation of words reflects a grammatical level of relationship that can be summarised as class association, a term introduced by Firth (1957 [1968], p. 181) as one of the key concepts in the study of corpus. A colligation is a collocation class that shows the different collocations between words. The classification of degree adverbs in Japanese can be divided into “evaluative degree adverbs (評価系程度副詞)” and “non-evaluative degree adverbs (非評価系程度副詞)” according to Watanabe’s (1990) theory. This paper takes “非常に” and “大変”, both of which are non-evaluative degree adverbs, as the objects of the study, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches, to analyse “非常に” and “大変”, which belong to the same category of degree adverbs, from a co-occurrence perspective by using relevant statistical tools and the definition of colligation.
colligation, degree adverb, Japanese, 非常に, 大変
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, July 2022, Vol. 12, No. 7, 731-737
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