맥락 진행에 따른 전치사 over와 beyond의 개별 의미와 의미구조 확장

A Study on Distinct Senses and Extended Semantic Structure of Prepositions over and beyond within the Contextual Process

his paper aims to analyze how the polysemous words over and beyond extend their some semantic structure on the basis of the contextual process. First, we have reviewed Tyler & Evans’s studies (2001 & 2003), which account for the polysemy of over in a principled, systematic manner within the framework of cognitive linguistics. They claim that the distinct senses of over are independent of the context, but we seek to indicate some problems with their analysis. I n order to solve Tyler & Evans’s flaw, we have focused on the relevance of the distinct senses (Tyler & Evans’s terminology) of prepositions to the sentence inference or contextual process. Through an analysis of the text, Confucius The Analects , we have figured out the relationship between distinct sense of preposition and its context. We have tried to show the control and transfer sense of over, depending on the lexical feature mapping in sentences with the sense settled by the contextual inference. We also have proposed core meaning of beyond and its transcendence and excess meaning formed through the relationships of both the feature mapping of lexicon and the context.