Subcategorization and Semantic Classification of Adjectives Expressing Emotions
Daniela Cãluianu （筑波大大学院）
This presentation offers a semantic classification of Japanese adjectives expressing emotions, based on subcategorization properties. Depending on the type of phrase which can appear in Stimulus argument position, these adjectives can be grouped into three classes.
Class A: NP-NP-Adj: nikui, itoshii
Class B: NP-{NP or S+control}-Adj: tanoshii, kowai, osoroshii
Class C: NP-{NP or S±control}-Adj: ureshii, hazukashii, urayamashii
A survey of the interpretation of nominal arguments in Stimulus position with each of the three classes of adjectives and an analysis of the temporal restrictions on the relation of Stimulus Event-Emotional State will lead to the following conclusions.
I. The factor determining the subcategorization class of an adjective is the ontological status of the Stimulus of the emotion.
Type A: Stimulus: Individuals
Type B: Stimulus: Events (no deictic anchoring)
Type C: Stimulus: Situations, Events (deictically anchored)
II. The three syntactic classes of adjectives represent three distinct types of 'emotional relations'.
Class A: relations between individuals
Class B: relations between individuals and properties (of events)
Class C: relations between events (situations)
