ADJECTIVE CLASSES IN NORTHEAST ASIA
REVISITING THE JAPANESE AND KOREAN LANGUAGES
Keywords:
Adjective classes, Korean Language, Japanese Language, Northeast Asia, AdjectivesAbstract
Descriptions of languages from Northeast Asia must frequently grapple with the question of whether they should recognise the existence of an adjective class in its lexical system. This discussion has been present in studies of languages from the region, such as Ainu (REFSING, 1986; SHIBATANI, 1990), Korean (CHANG, 1996; BYON, 2009; YEON e BROWN, 2011) and Nivkh (NEDJALKOV e OTAINA, 2013; GRUZDEVA, 1998; MATTISSEN, 2003) and, in Brazil, it has been present in the field of Japanese studies thanks to descriptions such as Suzuki (2016). In order to better understand the difficulties involved in the description of adjective classes in the region, the lexical classes whose classification has been disputed in Korean and Japanese have been analysed. After the application of 17 morphosyntactic and semantic criteria found in Dixon (2010) e Givón (2001), it has been noted that it is possible to spot more differences than similarities in the grammatical behaviour of verbs and adjectives in both languages, justifying the division into two different lexical classes.
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