The Progress of Potential Expressions in Japanese

Focused on literary work after the Meiji period

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the progress of “potential verb”, “reru・ rareru” and “kotogadekiru” after the Meiji period.
  First, I counted the “potential verb”, “reru・rareru” and “kotogadekiru” that had been used in the selected fourteen literary works. And then I analyzed the expective value's deviation that were calculated by the incidence rate and the expected value of the total usage rate.