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Come and kuru: A contrastive analysis of selected verbal constructions in English and Japanese
Sedláček, Martin ; Kanasugi, Petra (advisor) ; Malá, Markéta (referee)
The present BA thesis examines selected English and Japanese constructions consisting of the elementary motion verbs come and kuru, namely the polysemous Japanese construction V-te kuru and its English equivalents come to INF and come V-ing. The thesis adopts the construction grammar approach and interprets the constructions as form-meaning pairings (Goldberg, 1995). This approach allows us to isolate the given construction and search for it in corpus. Since this is not a quantitative but qualitative analysis, the corpus query is not used to mine large quantities of data, but to provide authentic language material. The retrieved data is subsequently interpreted and contrasted, the hypothesis being that there is a substantial convergence between the two languages in the usage of the respective constructions. Following the introduction of the topic and the motivation for the present research (Chapter 1), Chapter 2 outlines the theoretical framework of the present thesis (construction grammar). Chapter 2 also defines the two verbs in question (come and kuru), provides an overview of the research into the selected constructions, and presents the research questions and hypothesis. In Chapter 3 I introduce the methodology of the present thesis (qualitative analysis of the most frequent collocates for...
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