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A study on the meaning extension of ‘iss-ta/eop-ta’

JIN, MEIYING 1 Kim, Jin Soo 2

1东北师范大学人文学院
2충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study has a goal to analyse the direction of the meaning extension of complimental antonym words ‘iss-ta/eop-ta’. For the goal, this study applied on the cognitive theory. Complimental antonym words ‘iss-ta/eop-ta’ has five types of the meaning extension. The types of the meaning extension are as follows ① ‘object->space’ ②’object->behavior->space’, ③‘physical position-> social position-> psychological position’, ④‘content word->functional word’, ⑤‘concreteness->abstractness’. The aspects of the meaning extension are divided into two; one is symmetrical (as like as type①,②) and the other is asymmetrical (as like as type ③,④,⑤) The asymmetrical type of meaning extension made another imbalance of the productivity in the aspects of compounding lexical words, functional words and markedness. In the aspect of compounding words, ‘eop-ta’ is more productive than ‘iss-ta’, but in the side of functional words, ‘iss-ta’ is more productive. And in the aspect of markedness, ‘eop-ta’ is more productive than ‘iss-ta’, this means that the domain of the meaning of ‘iss-ta’ is wider than ‘eop-ta’.

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