Production of the Collocation of Polysemous Words Found in the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS)

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  • 日本語学習者横断コーパス（I-JAS）に見られる多義語コロケーションの産出
  • Focusing on the Verbs <i>suru</i> and <i>aru</i>
  • ―動詞「する」「ある」に焦点を当てて―

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<p>　The production of collocations using polysemous words is said to be difficult for Japanese language learners to master. We used the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS) to analyze which meanings of polysemous verbs that form collocations are used by native Chinese speakers who are learning Japanese (NNSs) and what characteristics are found in collocational nouns. We selected suru ʻdoʼ and aru ʻbeʼ as nodes.</p><p>　The analysis showed that, for both of those verbs, NNSs produced more collocations formed in the core meaning than native Japanese speakers (NSs). NNSs produced more collocational nouns for action with suru and for concrete content with aru. Furthermore, NNSs produced fewer abstract and formal nouns than NSs. This suggests that learners at the elementary and intermediate levels tend to acquire limited collocations or avoid collocations formed by derivative and abstract word meanings in the production of their interlanguage.</p>

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