時間副詞に関する一考察 - 「しばらく」を中心として

초록

This study has extracted all the sentences that include ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’, from ‘青空文庫(aozora mungo)’, then analyzed 2,762 sentences from which the amount of time of ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ can be measured. The temporal characteristics of ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ were divided into three types of ‘a short amount of time’, ‘a medium amount of time’ and ‘a long amount of time’ for the study, and analyzed the co-occurrence of ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ and the verbs. The result showed that ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ for the short amount of time were 1,844 in total, that for the medium amount of time were 601 and that for the long amount of time were 317. This proves that the temporal characteristics of ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ has more of the ‘short amount of time’, not of the ‘medium amount of time’, which has been generally known. By looking at the co-occurrence of ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ and the verbs, it showed the 4 mostly often co-occurred verbs were ‘かんがえる(kangaeru)’(218 cases), ‘だまる(damaru)’(178 cases), ‘ながめる(nagameru)’(176 cases) and ‘みる(miru)’(145 cases). The temporal characteristics of ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ were determined by the elements of the sentence, complement or by the situations of the events. The three mostly often occurred verbs with ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ for the medium amount of time were ‘あるく(aruku)’(66 cases), ‘まつ(matsu)’(64 cases) and ‘はなす(hanasu)’(53 cases). The temporal characteristics of ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ were determined by the situations of the events. The three mostly often occurred verbs with ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ for the long amount of time were いく(iku)’(15 cases), ‘滞在する(taizaisuru)’(13 cases), ‘いる(iru)’(11 cases), ‘くらす(kurasu)’(11 cases). In particular, ‘滞在する(taizaisuru)’ and ‘くらす(kurasu)’ verbs themselves have the temporal characteristics, and ‘しばらく(shibaraku)’ can represent several months or even several years, depending on the situation of the events.

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