A Study on Postposition Phrases Affecting Aspectual Interpretations in Japanese

许多作者根据动词的性质研究了由动词表示的事件的内部结构。我会用日语和英语给出关于目标短语的各种众所周知的数据：(1)Eki-ni iku(站-DAT Go；‘去学校’)(2)eki-ni aruku(站-站走；‘步行到学校’)(3)John去了站(4)John步行到站。第(2)和(4)句之间的可接受性差异已经从Aruku和Walk的性质之间的差异得到了解释。然而，它应该根据后置介词ni和介词to之间的性质差异来解释。

A number of authors have studied internal structures of events denoted by verbs in terms of the nature of verbs. I will give well-known kinds of data on goal phrases in Japanese and English ;(1) eki-ni iku(the station-DAT go ;'go to school')(2)* eki-ni aruku(the station-DAT walk ;'walk to school')(3) John went to the station(4) John walked to the station. The difference in acceptability between sentences(2) and(4) has been explained in terms of the one between the nature of aruku and walk. It should, however, be accounted for in terms of the difference between the nature of postposition ni and preposition to.