A Semantic Analysis of a Japanese Polysemous Verb “AGARU”: Verify Introspective Analysis with Behavioral Profile Approach

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  • 日本語多義動詞「あがる」の意味分析―Behavioral Profileアプローチにより内省分析を検証する―

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This study conducted a semantic analysis of the polysemous verb “AGARU” by verifying the results of introspective analysis using the Behavioral Profile （BP） approach. I annotated over 1000 instances of “AGARU” from corpus according to morphological, semantic, and other characteristics. And I analyzed the characteristics with frequency of co-occurrence and correlation analysis. As a result, first, based on usage frequency, the prototypical meaning was “to increase in quantity”, but based on formal constraints, it was “to move upward （goal）”. But it is difficult to say that “to move upward （route）” is a prototype. Second, the ambiguous semantic distinction in introspective analysis were clarified by the BP approach. And it was also found that some senses in introspective analysis need to be redefined or new senses need to be added. Thirdly, there were some semantic extensions in which the results of the BP approach should be adopted, but some results were difficult to interpret. It implied that while the premise that “The characteristics of lexical form behavior reflect semantic properties” is valid, it does not correspond perfectly. Overall, it was found that the BP approach is effective for the semantic analysis of polysemous verbs in Japanese.

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