Modifiers - Food

Japanese: 修飾語 - しゅうしょくご

A word used to limit the meaning of a sentence component. There are attributive modifiers such as " one day," " spring flowers," and " beautiful person," and predicative modifiers such as "throw it on the road ," "get up early ," and "run slowly ." Attributive modifiers include conjunctions, nouns + no, adjectives, adjectival verbs, and the attributive form of verbs, while predicative modifiers include nouns + case particles, the conjunctive forms of adjectives and adjectival verbs, and adverbs. In the case of " My father suddenly yelled out, " there are two theories: one that "my father" modifies "ageta" in the same way as "suddenly" and "yelled out," and that they should be treated the same as predicative modifiers, and the other that "my father" is not a predicative modifier and should be treated separately as a subject. Predicative modifiers can also be used with a subjunctive particle or a connecting particle attached, as in "playing only with my brothers " and "can't take it easy ," or with "no" added as a predicative modifier, as in " sudden event" and "conversation with my father ."

[Hideo Suzuki]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

文の成分の意味を限定して述べるのに用いる語。「ある日」「春の花」「美しい人」のような連体修飾語と、「道に捨てる」「早く起きる」「ゆっくり走る」などの連用修飾語とがある。連体修飾語としては、連体詞、体言＋の、形容詞、形容動詞、動詞の連体形があり、連用修飾語には、体言＋格助詞、形容詞や形容動詞の連用形、副詞がある。「父が突然大声をあげた」の場合、「突然」「大声を」と同じ資格で「父が」も「あげた」を修飾しており、連用修飾語としては同じに扱うべきだという考え方と、「父が」は連用修飾語ではなく、主語として別に扱うべきだとする説とがある。また、連用修飾語には、「兄弟とだけ遊ぶ」「のんびりはできない」のように、副助詞や係助詞が下接する場合や、「突然のできごと」「父との対話」のように、「の」をつけて連体修飾語として用いる場合もある。