A Contrastive Study of Intransitive and Transive Paired Verbs in Japanese and Eskimo

为建立爱斯基摩语动词分类图式做了基础性研究（阿拉斯加西南部）和日本的Miyaoka通过分析在爱斯基摩人的田野调查中获得的数据和Hayatsu通过分析她收集的日语材料以及爱斯基摩人的田野调查数据。他们证实，尽管这两种语言在动词形态上存在重要差异，日语中的“关系”及物动词和爱斯基摩语中的“非施事”双名动词具有一定的共时语义特征。基于这一认识，Hayatsu证明了“施事”和非施事动词之间的对立与爱斯基摩工具名词的不同形式密切相关，这些名词带有派生后缀-cuun/-Miyaoka证明了爱斯基摩语中的使役后缀-vkar-/-cec-在某些结构中只具有配价的增加而没有使役的内涵，其中一个结构在句法上对应于Hayatsu所说的日语中的“占有者主语的使役”。

Fundamental research was done for setting up a schema of classifying verbs in Yupik Eskimo (Southwest Alaska) and Japanese by Miyaoka through the analysis of data obtained in the Eskimo fieldwork and by Hayatsu through the analysis of her collected material in Japanese as well as the Eskimo fieldwork data.They confirmed that, albeit the important difference in verbal morphology in both the languages concerned, the 'relative' transitive verbs in Japanese and the 'non-agentive' binominal verbs in Eskimo share certain sytactico-semantic characteristics.Based upon this understanding, Hayatsu demonstrated that the opposition between 'agentive' and non-agentive verbs is highly relevant to different formations of Eskimo instrumental nouns with the derivational suffix -cuun/-ssuun.Miyaoka demonstrated that the causative suffix -vkar-/-cec- in Eskimo has merely the valency increase without connotation of causativity in certain constructions, one of which corresponds syntactically to what Hayatsu termed 'causative of possessor subject' in Japanese.