Talk:形容動詞


 * 1)  adjectival verb (a word class in the traditional description of Japanese grammar)


 * Usage notes

In traditional Japanese grammar, adjectives except fall into two categories depending on their perceived suffix:  have suffixes not found in other word classes ( in Classical Japanese,  in modern Japanese) while  have suffixes identical to verbs ( or  in Classical Japanese,  in modern Japanese), hence the names.

From the western linguistic view, however, the suffix in the so-called are usually considered not part of the adjective itself, but standalone copulas, as shown by the rōmaji (e.g. shizuka da/na as opposed to shizukada/-na). Due to the nominal nature of the stem and the verb- or particle-like nature of the suffix, in western sources the stems (shizuka), rather than the whole words (shizuka da), are usually considered the shape of the adjectives and sometimes called adjectival nouns as opposed to adjectival verbs. Other terms include copular noun and quasi-adjective.

Some linguistic analyses of Japanese grammar, such as the one by Bjarke Frellesvig, consider the suffix of so-called (viz.  in Classical Japanese,  in modern Japanese) to be a copula as well. Also note that some sources call this type of adjectives "adjectival verbs" or "stative verbs", don't confuse it with in the traditional description of Japanese grammar.

What do you think about this description? --Dine2016 (talk) 12:59, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I don’t know what you expect, but the explanation seems correct. 静か is not an adjectival verb; 静かだ is. We classify 静か in adjectival nouns. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 15:03, 14 June 2019 (UTC)