The Issues Related on Semantics of Construction in Korean Linguistics
Yeon-ju Jeong · Korean Linguistics · 2019
This study aims to compensates Jeong & Jeong(2019) which reviews the literature of Korean linguistics having done under the name of Construction Grammar. There were some issues in the literature, related on semantics of construction. First, when verbs are used in constructions that are incompatible with their original meaning, there were discussions that the construction can modify the verb’s meaning, and that the verb choose the construction after the verb’s meaning changes. We discussed that it is not uncommon for a construction to dominate and to control the meaning of a verb, and we cannot only consider the possibility of a verb’s choosing a construction after the meaning changes first. Second, when there are several constructions of same form, the problem can be raised that which of them can be seen in the relation of polysemy. In this paper, according to Nam(2005) on the homonymy and polysemy of lexical elements, discussed that the constructions that share the ‘same conceptual properties’ can be understood as the constructions in the relation of polysemy.