Analysis of dative case relations between constituents of Japanese deverbal nouns using lexical conceptual structure

摘要

In this paper we propose the method to analyze relationships between constituents of Japanese compound nouns, especially the dative case relationship in deverbal noun compounds. The kinds of relations between noun-deverbal noun compounds can be roughly classified into two: the one is that the noun becomes an argument of head verb, and the other is that the noun becomes an adjunct of head verb. The relation of the dative case we take up is a kind of argument relation but it has not been investigated carefully. We try to analyze these relationships and to make sure how we can explain those linguistic phenomena based on lexical semantics theory. We introduce lexical conceptual structure (LCS) as a lexical semantic expression and show the possibility to build compound noun analyzer based on LCS to dead with the dative case relations.