Abstract
In this study, the analysis of 100 types of [keun N] constructions has confirmed the AENM (Accompanied Experience Network Model)’s theoretical assumption that the semantic extension caused by metonymy brings about the fuzzy boundaries of meanings, unlike the domain extension of usages caused by metaphor. It has turned out that each of ‘keuda’ and ‘big’ in 100 types of [keun N] and [big N] has 13 distinct meanings caused by metonymy, but they share only 9 of these. An analysis of corpus data also indicates that the semantic extension of ‘keuda’ by metonymy leads to the metaphoric extension of domain, which explains the emergence of so-called primary metaphors. On the other hand, AENM’s approach to the corpus data reveals that ‘keuda’ and ‘big’ share all of the metaphorically extended usages wherein [keun N] and [big N] are translation equivalents. These findings shed light on how metonymy and metaphor operate in the process of meaning extension and support AENM as a neural theory of language acquisition.
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