A study of reflexive usage construction in Japanese
This paper is research on change of the meaning of the verb which it originally has by the meaning of a complement. The sentence showing transitivity will turn into an objective type reflexive usage sentence, if a body noun comes to an objective complement. If a body noun comes to a dative complement, it will become a dative type reflexive usage sentence, and if a body noun comes to a benefactive complement, it will become a benefactive type reflexive usage sentence. The subdivision of these three types was carried out further. The semantic element which becomes the standard of a classification is [±visibility], [±relativity] and [±resultativity]. Each type can be classified into the further subsort type according to the combination of these meaning element.