Semantic Interpretation of the Sentences with Aspectual Meaning in Korean - Type Coercion and Cognitive Inference

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Semantic Interpretation of the Sentences with Aspectual Meaning in Korean - Type Coercion and Cognitive Inference

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ABSTRACT
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This paper aims to examine the semantic interpretation of the sentences with aspectual meaning in Korean. The Korean sentences with aspectual meaning include the following types of sentence: the aspectual verb construction with an event argument, the aspectual one with an individual argument, the action verb construction with an event argument, and the action one with an individual argument. As for the aspectual meaning, the aspectual verb with an event argument has a very transparent interpretation, but the other cases need special processes of interpretation. We can suggest that these special processes are ‘the type coercion’ and ‘the cognitive inference’ like metaphor and metonymy and that some processes can happen as the mixed form such as metaphor following the type coercion. Also, I can conclude that these generative and cognitive processes depend on the lexical-semantic structure of a word, and that this phenomenon reflects the compositionality of the semantic interpretation.
KEYWORDS
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상 동사(aspectual verb), 동작 동사(action verb), 사건 명사(event noun), 개체 명사(individual noun), 생성 어휘부 이론(generative lexicon theory), 어휘 의미 구조(lexical-semantic structure), 유형 강제(type coercion), 인지적 추론(cognitive inference), 은유(metaphor), 환유(metonymy), 합성성(compositionality)

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