The Diachronic Evolution of the Adverbization of Te-verb Form in Japanese from Recent to Modern Period

In the process of language evolution, some te-verb forms in Japanese have been converted into adverbial modifiers or complete adverbs for modifying predicates. The conversion from verb to modifier adverb is a gradual process. On basis previous researches, this paper takes「敢えて」,「極めて」,「初めて」,「改めて」,「好んで」and「目立って」as research objects, and through investigation corpus explore evolution diachronic recent period modern one. With observation frequency semantic changes, degrees adverbization objects improved reduced, word classes dynamic change.