A Cognitive Semantic Analysis of the Motion Verb Milta in Korean: A Case Study of Polysemy
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This paper examines the semantics of the force-dynamic motion verb milta 'push' in Korean within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. This verb is polysemous with a wide range of multiple senses. I argue that the individual senses of milta are not arbitrary, separate uses, but are related to one another in terms of family resemblance relationships, establishing a complex semantic category. I first examine in the physical domain the prototypical event Prototype milta and its semantic structure with regard to cognitive-functional attributes (i.e., trajector, landmark, energy transfer, relative strength, path, and irretrievability). By means of the trajector's exertion of physical force upon the landmark, the event Prototype milta results in the landmark's irretrievable movement along a spatial path away from the source of force. This paper also shows that semantic extensions of Prototype milta are motivated in a coherent way. The extended senses of milta in physical and abstract domains are thus characterized with reference to Prototype milta via the different but related conceptualizations of the cognitive-functional attributes. (Korea Digital University)
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This paper examines the semantics of the force-dynamic motion verb milta 'push' in Korean within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. This verb is polysemous with a wide range of multiple senses. I argue that the individual senses of milta are not arbitrary, separate uses, but are related to one another in terms of family resemblance relationships, establishing a complex semantic category. I first examine in the physical domain the prototypical event Prototype milta and its semantic structure with regard to cognitive-functional attributes (i.e., trajector, landmark, energy transfer, relative strength, path, and irretrievability). By means of the trajector's exertion of physical force upon the landmark, the event Prototype milta results in the landmark's irretrievable movement along a spatial path away from the source of force. This paper also shows that semantic extensions of Prototype milta are motivated in a coherent way. The extended senses of milta in physical and abstract domains are thus characterized with reference to Prototype milta via the different but related conceptualizations of the cognitive-functional attributes. (Korea Digital University)