抄録
Place deixis differs from language to language. The Japanese demonstrative system uses three-way distioctions: proximal KO, medial SO and distal A. Chinese has two, ZHE / NA. Some grammarians point out that the place deixis system of each language reflects speaker and hearer's territorial sense of space in conversation.
This paper examines the relationship between Chinese locational demonstrativer ZHER/NAR and motion verbs LAI/QU, and compare them with Japanese locational demonstratives KOKO/SOKO/ASOKO and motion verb KURU/IKU. This research offers an important key to an understanding pragmatic differences between Japanese and Chinese motion verbs.
