한정성 전치사 IN의 의미 구조 = The Semantic Structure of the Boundedness Preposition "In"

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this article I investigate the polysemy of the preposition in. First I provide the study of prepositions by Lindner(1983) as a theoretical background for this article. The problem of the Lindner`s approach is that she uses the concept of movement in presenting image schema for prepositions in and out. The concept of movement involves the relation which evolves over time, so the concept is typically the basic attribute of verbs. On the other hand, prepositions are atemporal. Prepositions refers to the asymmetrical relation of the trajector and the landmark, but not to the movement of the trajector. In this article, I present the image schema of preposition in not using the concept of movement and investigate the relation of the meanings associated with in. And I demonstrate that the meanings associated with in should be approached in terms of polysemy approach, but not in terms of approaches of homonymy and monosemy. There are five semantic clusters in the semantic network of in the location cluster, the interior vantage-point cluster, the exterior vantage-point cluster, the segmentation cluster, reflexivity. From the location cluster arise a range of closely related meanings of In Situ Sense, State Sense, Activity Sense, Means Sense. The interior vantage- point cluster gives rise to many distinct meanings of Perceptual Accessibility Sense, In Favour Sense, Arrival Sense. The exterior vantage-point cluster gives rise to the meaning of the Disappearance Sense. The segmentation cluster gives rise to the meanings of The Shape As Boundary Sense and Blockage Sense. And reflexivity gives rise to Reflexive Sense. Finally, I study the contrast of in and into. English preposition in is not related to orientation but to the bounded landmark, while preposition into is related to orientation. Later I will study the relatedness of in and out which are in the same category of prepositions which use the concept of boundedness.