본고는 현대일본어의 연체수식형 지시표현에서, 주로 문체 차이로밖에 다루어져 오지 않은 コンナ류와 コノヨウナ류의 지시용법의 차이를 밝힌 것이다. 국립 국어 연구소의 코퍼스(BCCWJ)을 사용한 계량적 조사 및 텍스트 프레임을 사용하여 용례를 분석해 봤다. 그 결과, コンナ류는 속성용법과 내용용법으로 2가지 용법을 가지는 한편, コノヨウナ류는 기본적으로 내용용법만을 가진다고 말할 수 있다. 또 コンナ류와 コノヨウナ류의 용법 차이에 의하여 コンナ류에서는 문장 매체나 장르에 관계없이 항상 ソ계 편중을 보이는 것에 대해 コノヨウナ류에서는 논설 문장 등 문장 장르에 좌우되는 コ계 편중이 있다는 차이도 확인할 수 있다.

There is a wealth of previous studies on adnominal demonstrative expressions in Japanese, where the differences between the konna-group and the konoyouna-group have been largely regarded as stylistic variants. The present study, however, reveals their non-stylistic differences in terms of the referential use. Our claims are based on (i) a quantitative analysis of the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) and (ii) a qualitative analysis employing text-frames. Our central finding is that the konna-group exhibits both the attributive and the content use whereas the konoyouna-group principally exhibits the content use alone. That is, while it is possible that the konoyouna-group could display the attributive use, a sharp contrast is observed in this regard between the two groups, as confirmed by both the quantitative and qualitative analyses. This finding leads to our conclusion that, contrary to the opposing view in the previous literature, the differences between the konna-group and the konoyouna-group cannot be solely ascribed to stylistic differences. It is also suggested that, due to this discrepancy concerning the usages of demonstratives, sonna is most likely to be employed in the konna-group (i.e., konna, sonna, anna) regardless of the media/genre of texts, whereas there is atendency that konoyouna is used in certain types of text such as analytical texts in the case of the konoyouna-group (i.e., konoyouna, sonoyouna, anoyouna).