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The construction X-lai-X-qu ‘X-come-X-go’ is widely used in modern Mandarin Chinese and it has attracted researchers’ attention because the construction has diverse meanings when various types of words occur in the X position. Previous studies have explored the construction and identified the meaning of this construction as ‘repetition’(Li, 2002; Zeng, 2008; Zhou, 2017; Lu, 2018). Lu (2018), for example, has examined the meaning relatedness between variants of the construction from a cognitive perspective. However, the focus of Lu’s study is limited to meaning extensions of X-lai-X-qu only when verbs take the X positions. Other variants where pronouns, nouns and adjectives occur in the X position have not been adequately addressed. For more comprehensive analysis, this paper examines all the different variants of the construction and analyzes construction X-lai-X-qu from the perspective of cognitive semantics and concludes that they are all related in meanings through metaphor and metonymy.

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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. The Polysemy of the X-lai-X-qu Construction
3.1. Spatial Bidirectional Movement to Repetitive Movement (an Animate Entity)
3.2. Spatial Bidirectional Movement to Repetitive Movement of an Inanimate object
3.3. Spatial Bidirectional Movement to Repetitive Movement of Time
3.4. Manner of Movement for Moving Agent (Metonymy)
3.5. Repetition (Quantity) to Quality
3.6. Summary
4. Conclusion
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저자

• Han Hu [ Chosun University/Graduate student ] First author
• Youngiu Choi [ Chosun University/Professor ] Corresponding author

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