The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meaning construction of Japanese verb nuku. According to Daijirin Dictionary, nuku has 20 different meanings-pull out, chose, remove, omit, surpass etc. This paper investigates the semantic structure of nuku in the cognitive semantics view, especially image schema transformation that is supposed to offer an explanation with consistency and coherency. nuku means to ‘pull trajector B out from landmark A’ in prototypically. It means also to chose B or remove B from A subsequently. In prototipical meaning, an act of nuku make a hole in the A by pulling out B, because A and B stick to each other or compose one structure originally. This meaning extend to pierce or pass through A, moreover, pass by A, consequently. As a compund verb suffix, nuku represents a grammatical aspects that means to carry out an action completely and throughly. It is supposed that the meaning of passing through mapped the time concept.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.