｢括り｣類の範疇的名詞をめぐる修飾と共起の様相 = Patterns of Modification and Collocation in “Grouping”-Type Categorizing Nouns

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper defines nouns that share the semantic notion of “grouping” as categorizing nouns and examines how they achieve semantic and syntactic stability through pre- modification, post-modification, and conventionalized collocational patterns. With respect to pre-modification, the analysis demonstrates that modifiers such as koso-a demonstratives, expressions denoting quantity and frequency, and nominal attributive modifiers play a crucial role in concretizing the referents of categorizing nouns and stabilizing sentence interpretation.
As for post-modification, although it cannot be regarded as a prototypical modification pattern in Japanese, the analysis confirms the existence of combinations that have become conventionally established under certain semantic constraints.
Furthermore, from the perspective of conventionalized collocation, it becomes clear that not all categorizing nouns exhibit the same degree of constructionalization; rather, there are marked differences among individual nouns. In particular, ruikei (‘category’) readily combines with a wide range of verbal predicates and functions as the core of verb phrases in discourse, thereby displaying behavior distinct from that of other “grouping” nouns.