日本語の生産的使役と語彙的使役の連続性について : 認知文法による分析に向けて

Abstract

In cognitive grammar, there has been much discussion on causative construction. However, it seems to have concentrated on the matter of how the participant noun phrases are case marked, or what is the prototype of causative meaning. In generative tradition, on the other hand, the difference between productive (syntactic) and lexical causatives and its theoretical treatment have been one of the central issues concerning the syntactic structure of predicate. In this article, I take up three phenomena which have been thought to reflect the structural difference between productive and lexical causative sentences in Japanese, and give an account of it in terms of cognitive grammar. Main claims of this article are as follows: alleged dichotomy between productive and lexical causatives is analyzed as continuum distributed according to the degree of causee's volitionality; the causative schema which Langacker (1991) proposed is regarded as a meta-schema abstracted from sub-schemas whose causees are seen volitional in some degree; biclausal property which causative constructions exhibit stems from the nature of the cognition of dynamic event and of causee's volitionality.