It is said that the Japanese evidential form soo da ‘it appears’ does not connect to nouns; however, in its actual use, soo da can be seen to occur with some nouns as in ii hito soo da ‘appear to be a nice person’. By using corpus data, this study examined what type of nouns occur with soo da. The result has shown that in the majority of cases, soo da is used with a noun that expresses a person's state or nature.
