Abstract
The variety of the meanings of the verbs "
iku" and "
kuru" in Japanese is said to be difficult for Japanese learners to understand (Heo & Ogawa, 2016). In this paper, we observe the "non-spatial movement" usage of noun phrases of "
iku" and "
kuru" in Tsukuba Web Corpus according to the co-occurrence situation to find the differences. The study has shown that the co-occurrence of <abstract place> is related to the abstraction degree, and the co-occurrence of <body> noun tends to be idiomatic expression.
