Mental Predicate Feel Subtype Feel and Think in Japanese: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

Abstract

According to Goddard and Wierzbicka (2014) the original meaning of the mental
predicate consists of six types namely, think, know, feel, see, hear, want and don't want. This
finding was then forwarded to Japanese by Asano Cavanagh (2015), finding 12 verbs of
Japanese language conditions that are matched with those found by Goddard and Wierzbicka
(2014). Of the twelve state verbs that were passed on by Asano, the type FEEL was matched
with the mental predicate 感じるkanjiru. Mental predicate感じるkanjiru has a subtype which
turns out to produce more mental predicate than the other six types. Found subtypes FEEL and
THINK, FEEL and HAPPEN, FEEL and DO, FEEL and TELL. Subtype FEEL and THINK
produces 2 sub-subtypes namely FEEL and THINK (GOOD) and FEEL and THINK (BAD).