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According to Hashimoto’s grammar, a sentence is composed of clauses and a clause, words. Some of the words are composed of other word, base, and affixes. Aword is. divided into an independent and dependent word. A clause can be composed of one word or more than two words. The exemples are as follows : 1. one word clause : iku 2. two word clause : ika nai 3. three word clause : ika u keredomo 4. four word clause : ika re naka tta. tora se masu mai The above mentioned ’nai’, ’u’, ’ta’, and ’mas’ are dependent words(auxiliaries), while ’nai’, ’masu’, ’ta’ and ’u’ in ’ika nai’ ’iki masu’, "i tta.’, and ’ika u’ are not words (auxiliaries) but they should be considered to be affixes. (Hashimoto(1967), pp. 10,19). The result is that ’ikanai’, a two word clause, becomes a one word clause and ’ikau keredomo’, a three word clause, becomes a two word clause. This is a serious contradiction in Hashimoto’s theory on clauses he asserts that ’nai’, ’u’, ’ta’, and ’masu’ which he defined first as auxiliaries are affixes. The aim of this thesis is to solve the contradiction like this Hashimoto’s exemples on the constitution of clauses are as follows: 1. ’iku’ a one word clause, also contitutes such clauses as ’iku Keredomo’, ’ikuga’, ’ikunowa’. 2. ’ikanai’, ’ikimasu’, ’itta’, ’ikau’, ’yamada’, which are one clause, also constitute such clauses as ’ikanai keredomo’, ’ikimasuga’, ’ikanainowa’, ’ikimasukeredomo’ ’ikimasuga’, ’ikimasunowa’. iku iku keredomo iku ga iku nowa ikanai ikanai keredomo ikanai ga ikanai nowa ikimasu ikimasu keredomo ikimasu ga ikimasu nowa itta itta keredomo itta ga itta nowa ikau ikau keredomo ikau ga ikau)nowa yamada yamada keredomo yamada ga yamada nowa (The word ’ikaunowa’ is-not used) The second line, including ’keredomo’, among the above exemples is taken to be viewed. He asserts that ’iku’, ’i kanai’, ’i kirnasu’, ’itta’, ’i kau’ ’yamada’, by the exclusion of ’keredomo’ from every clause in the second line are all equal in rank, and the units such as ’i kanai’, ’i kirnasu’, ’itta’, ’i kau’, ’yamada’, which are cordinate with ’iku’, should not be considered to be clauses but words, it follows that if ’i kanai’ is a word, ’nai’(auxiliary) will become a unit attached to a word, and so it is not a word(auxiliary) but a kind of affix. The contradiction of Hasnimoto’s grammar exisists in this point. He has fallen in a self-contradictiom that ’ikanai’ which he defines as a two word clause becomes a one word clause. The writer intends to establish the invariability of ’nai’ as the auxiliary, indicating the affixal quality of the auxiliary.
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