The Argument and Semantic Structures of Japanese Verb Give

This study examines four Japanese synonymous verbs that have the same equivalent in English, namely GIVE. These are ageru, kureru, kizou suru, and kifu suru. used a qualitative descriptive method. Example sentences for data were taken from Balance Corpus of Contemporary Written corpus data. The theories applied this argument structure theory Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory. Based on analysis, there selectional restrictions found these can be to distinguish one verb another. In addition, verbs, although some overlapping meaning components, distinctive components belonging each verb. Therefore, it said cannot fully replace other all contexts.