にとどまらずnot stopping at; going beyond
とどまる is "to stay", so A にとどまらず is "without stopping at A". Damage, influence, popularity or someone's work has gone past that line and reached further.
The damage spread beyond coastal areas into inland regions.
After a noun
Noun + にとどまらず
What it has reached comes next, usually with も: 内陸部にも, 海外でも.
After a verb or an adjective
Plain form + だけにとどまらず
軽いだけにとどまらず. A な-adjective keeps its な: 便利なだけにとどまらず. After a verb the だけ is often left out: 指摘するにとどまらず.
- Before it
- The line it might have stayed inside: 国内 (the country), 県内 (the prefecture), one field, one group.
- After it
- How far it has gotten, often with 広がる (to spread), 及ぶ (to reach) or 拡大する.
- Where you'll meet it
- News, reports, essays, company profiles, for good news and bad alike. In conversation people say だけじゃなくて.
In use
This work was highly praised not only at home but overseas as well.
Participation in this initiative has spread beyond college students to high school students and local residents as well.
This change will not merely reduce costs; it will also shorten working time.
Not a plain "not only"
Something has to reach past a line: an effect, a reputation, the range of what a person or a thing does. With two small things side by side, it comes out as a joke.
Sounds odd: 昨日は
Yesterday I did not stop at ramen; I had gyoza as well.
Fine if you are laughing at how much you ate. Otherwise ラーメンだけじゃなくて、ギョーザも食べた.
Close neighbours
に限らずN2
"Not only A". It says who or what something is true of, as a rule or a general fact. Nothing has to spread.
This course is open to working adults as well as students.
だけでなくN4
The usual "not only A but also B". In conversation people mostly say だけじゃなくて.
Tanaka speaks Chinese too, you know, not just English.
Check yourself
1What does this tell you?
台風の
Choose an answer to see why.
2Which sentence sounds natural?
Choose an answer to see why.
More detail
にとどまらない ends a sentence.
The effects are not confined to one industry.
Without the negative it is the reverse, and the news is full of it: something went no further than a low mark.
Turnout was only forty percent.
More sentences
The effects of the new system extend beyond the cities to small and medium-sized businesses in the regions.
The research findings are being applied beyond medicine, in education and social welfare as well.
Support was extended beyond children to their families as well.
She did not stop at pointing out the problems; she put forward a solution herself.