A Study of Sensory Motion in Japanese and Korean : Based on Comparison with Talmy's Motion

This paper analyzes four types of sensory motions in Japanese and Korean, visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile, in order to assess their relationship to the motion event patterns described in Talmy's typology. Both Japanese and Korean maintain the characteristics of a verb– framed language. This appears to be because the sensory verbs that are in motion take precedence over the path components. But if the path component appears at the position noun or contains secondary information, it can be said that the characteristics of a verb–framed language maintain these verb–framed traits in extended sensory motion constructions. Visual motion, which accounts for the majority of cases shows the verb framed pattern more strongly. Auditory, olfactory, tactile motions appear in a form where the characteristics of a verb–framed language were not well extended.