日本語学習者のための複合動詞リストCoPeの開発

Compound verbs (fukugōdōshi) are one kind of complex predicate in Japanese typically combining two verbal elements (V1 and V2), with V1 appearing in the adverbal (renyō) form.While compound verbs are documented in a number of languages spoken in Asia, they are particularly prevalent in Japanese (Kageyama, 2016, p. 273).There are over 2700 compound verbs in common use in contemporary Japanese (1) , and they comprise approximately 40% of the verbal lexicon (Morita, 1978, p. 71) (2) .These figures refer to so-called lexical compound verbs, which are distinguished from syntactic compound verbs.Examples from Kageyama (2016, p. 277) are provided below (3) .(1) Lexical compound verbs: nagare-ochiru 'flow down', aruki-tsukareru 'get tired from walking', tobi-agaru 'jump up', furi-yamu '(rain) stop falling'(1) The Compound Verb Lexicon (section 3.1) lists "over 2,700 verb-verb compound verbs commonly used in contemporary Japanese".Urls and access dates for this and other online resources are provided following the reference list.(2) Simplex verbs account for approximately 45% in the same survey, with the majority of remaining items categorized as verbal nouns combined with the light verb suru 'do' (Morita, 1978, p.71).(3) Different Romanization conventions to Kageyama's are used here for consistency with the rest of the paper.