Abstract
This paper aims to point out the possibility that the verb-framed languages of Japanese and Korean are prone to express the co-event of caused motion, according to Talmy’s typology. In this paper, I examine the frequency of co-events which will be expressed as V1, in particular the Japanese verb infinitive forms and the Korean conjunctive morpheme ‘-e’ and ‘-a’. As a result, this examination shows that the means of caused motion were greater than that of the manner. It can be said that the importance is low in the expression of caused motion. Additionally, there were many V1 expressions in this study that were neither means nor manner, they were mainly action verbs, verbs including foreground or background information, and verbs of spontaneous motion. Completing the entirety of caused motion by specifying other aspects of caused motion can be seen as a competent strategy. The results of sub-classifying the caused motion of the two languages can be linked to the results of this paper in that the means were greater than the manner of caused motion.
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