Re: EDIT entry : soboku

Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>>>Paul Blay wrote:
>>>>I guess these go together.
>>>>素朴 【そぼく】 (adj-na,n) simplicity; artlessness; naivete; (P) 素樸
>>>>【そぼく】 (adj-na,n) simplicity; artlessness
>>>Neither is glossed as an adjective, in spite of that being the initial
>>>classification.
>> At present the ordering of POS markers is more accidental and
>> historical than indicating priority.
>>
>> I would really like to strip the "n" off the 形容動詞 which are not
>> also nouns in their own right, but since I have 4,000+ tagged it's
>> not a simple job to look at each one.

>Come to think of it, I have a hard time seeing 素朴 as a noun at all.
>Do you have text examples (I suppose I should look. I do have your
>pages bookmarked, and I might as well learn how to find the examples.
>But I'll wait and see if I can finish News and e-mail before my next crash.)

Not in the Tanaka corpus. Kenkyusha 中辞典 glosses it as
"simplicity; artlessness; naivete", but GG5 goes straight for the
~な and says: simple; ingenuous; unsophisticated; artless; naive; pristine

I see planty of hits on "素朴が....".

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