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Research on the Polysemy of Verbs of Vertical Movement - Focusing on ‘Oreuda’ and ‘Naerida’ in Korean -

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2024, (93), pp.249-284
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.093.08
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 19, 2024
  • Accepted : May 3, 2024
  • Published : May 31, 2024

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ABSTRACT

This study is an attempt to describe the semantic characteristics of the Korean verbs of vertical movement ‘oreuda’ and ‘naerida’ from a multifaceted perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. The two verbs are polysemous verbs which are composed of prototype and peripheral meanings. These individual meanings form a radial category which is a semantic network with various expanded meanings based on the semantic prototype of movement. Semantic characteristics of the verbs is compared to the semantic descriptions of the verbs in Korean explanatory dictionaries. The peripheral meanings are explained as metaphorical or metonymic extensions of the semantic prototype. Metonymic extension refers to a peripheral meaning whose semantic aspect of the movement is more elaborated or highlighted than others, and metaphorical extension happens when a peripheral meaning has a semantic similarity to the prototype of vertical movement. The verb s of vertical movement ‘oreuda’ and ‘naerida’ are used in certain constructions of a sentence. In particular, ‘oreuda’ designating the occurrence of a property (or properties) is used with the construction of a subject and a place of occurrence, and ‘naerida’ is mainly used in a transitive construction with a cause and a moving object. In addition, the verbs are combined with other verbs, nouns, adjectives, and prefixes to form compound words, and these compound verbs also perform the function of elaborating the prototypical characteristics of rising and falling movement and of diverse semantic extensions.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.