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A Study on the Current Trend and Issues of Korean Verbs Polysemy

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2014, 46(), pp.111-139
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Nam, Kyoung-woan 1

1창원대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to survey the current trend and some issues about polysemy of Korean verbs. Each theory researching polysemy has methodology in its own way. The traditional approaches such as lexicographic description, discontinuity of meaning and formalism are based on the analytical viewpoint, whereas cognitive approaches are based on the generative viewpoints. These two main approaches to the polysemy show the differences not only in the concrete analyzing process but also in the representation method of meaning. But especially in the research on the polysemy of verbs, the critical research issues that are interested by every theory are argument structure, selectional restriction and the principle of meaning extension. Because verbs represent the state-of-affairs in the real world and function as predicate in the sentence, the syntactic and semantic relations between the verbs and their arguments are the most important research themes. In that respect there is common ground on the analyzing of verb polysemy and the hierarchy that is made by the distance of semes is the starting point to synthesize several methodologies of polysemy research.

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