2021 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 65-80
This study takes Kango antei as an example, elucidates how the semantic function is affected by the use of five adnominal modification: na, no, shita, tekiφ, and tekina. Specifically, we focus on three aspects: (1) frequency and range, (2) feature genres, and (3) collocations. The results show that: (1) The frequency of antei-shita is the highest and the range of its use is the widest among the five patterns, (2) antei-na is characteristically used in the textbook genre, while antei-teki (na) is used in the white paper and law genres, (3) The use of antei as a technical term is limited to the form of antei-na, and other forms are used for general meaning. We conclude that there are manifold semantics and usages of the word antei, depending on the followed adnominal modification.
