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A Cognitive Approach to the Semantic Extension of English Verb "Go"

Jiahong Jiang

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Polysemy is a common phenomenon in the vocabulary of a language.Metaphor and Metonymy are two major types of semantic extension.Semantic extensions of go from a motion verb to a future marker and to a quotative verb have their inherent process and the motivation,which reflect metaphorical way and metonymic types of human's cognitive thinking.

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Key concepts: Polysemy, Metonymy, Verb, Linguistics, Metaphor and metonymy, Metaphor, Extension (predicate logic), Cognitive semantics