A Study in Subordinate Clauses of the Relationship of Continuous Time

• Main Authors: Wan-Jen Huang, 黃琬真
• Other Authors: 作者未提供
• Format: Others
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k6ww2q

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 應用日語學系碩士班 === 93 === In the usage of modern Japanese, there are two kinds of sentence structures respectively presenting the relationship of continuous time ---- “Precedent─Succeed” relationship and “Succeed─Precedent” relationship. The aim of this study is to examine the sentences with Precedent─Succeed” relationship pattern, such as “∼taato,”“∼tekara,” “∼tekaratoiumono,” “∼teirai,” “∼teikou,” “∼teigo,” or“∼tanoti.” Additionally, the thesis is to redefine these patterns as “adverbs with sentences.” That is, sentences introduced by “ato”structure, “tekara”structure, “tekaratoiumono”structure, “irai”structure, “ikou”structure, “igo”structure, and “noti”structure are all adverbial clauses modifying the independent sentence. Among the adverbial clauses, some use the case particles “ni”and “de”or the person in charge particle“ha.”Some do not utilize any particle. However, can the case particles “ni”and “de”or the person in charge particle“ha”be put in sentence arbitrarily? How different it may be in the sentence structure or in the meaning itself when these particles are used, and when they are not? This study tries to take insight into these questions. With the reference from some former studies and researches, this thesis differentiate the characteristics of sentence patterns, the sentence meaning and its usage, such as the absolute level on each pattern, the predicate in the subordinate clause, the type of the independent clause, the verb tense in the independent clause, as well as the cause-and-result relationship between the independent clause and the subordinate clause. It would be my honor to make some contributions to the education of Japanese language through this research.