英語の同等比較級と日本語の限定表現 : 「範囲」と「限界」

A Comarison of Limitative Expressions in Japanese and English: "As··· as" Constructions in English and suru-kagiri and suru-dake in Japanese

上野 貴史

下内 充

大阪女子短期大学紀要

Osaka Women's Junior College bulletin

It is observed in English composition classes that Japanese students often use idiomatic expressions like "as ... as one can/possible", "as long as" or "as far as" to translate Japanese limitative phrases suru-dake or suru-kagiri. But some of the English sentences which are produced using these English expressions are inappropriate.
We compare the English sentences using "as ... as one can/possible" and "as ... as one want /like" with the Japanese adverbial clauses which have -dake, and discuss a parallelism seen in the English structure with the comparative of equality and the Japanese clause with -dake. We also tried to analyze the English sentences with "unless" and "as far/long as" to know the proper equivalents which correspond to the Japanese adverbial with -kagiri, considering such factors as 'scope', 'limit' and 'duration' given by the English verbs employed in the structures.

VERB -kagiri　　　→　 IF S + V
　　　　　　　　　　　AS FAR AS S + V
　　　　　　　　　　　AS LONG AS S + V
　　　　　　　　　　　OTHERS

VERB NOT -kagiri　→　IF S + V NOT
　　　　　　　　　　　UNLESS S + V
　　　　　　　　　　　AS LONG AS S + V NOT
　　　　　　　　　　　OTHERS

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大阪女子短期大学

[ISSN] 0385-4310

[NCID] AN00029269