The suffix -cil in Korean seems to take heterogeneous nouns as its bases. For example, sensayng 'teacher' in sensayngcil 'teaching' is an agent, kyeycip 'woman' in kyeycipcil 'womanizing' is a patient and kwayngi 'hoe' in kwayngicil 'hoeing' is an instrument. Therefore, the suffix -cil has been regarded as having various meanings. However, from the viewpoint of cognitive semantics, the various bases of the suffix -cil can be interpreted as consistently referring to an event through metonymy. In sensayngcil 'teaching,' the base sensayng 'teacher' refers to an event through AGENT FOR EVENT metonymy. An agent has a conceptual contiguity with the whole event because it is one element of the event. Similarly, the patient, keyecip 'woman' in keyecipcil 'womanizing,' and the instrument kwayngi 'hoe' in kwayngicil 'hoeing,' as participants of an event, refer to the whole event by the PATIENT FOR EVENT metonymy and the INSTRUMENT FOR EVENT metonymy, respectively. Close examination of -cil suffixation reveals that all the elements in an event can be a base of -cil suffixation because each of them metonymically refers to the whole event. Therefore, it can be concluded that, from the viewpoint of cognitive semantics, seemingly different meanings of the suffix -cil can be unified to one when the different bases consistently interpreted as an event through metonymy.

1. 서론
2. ‘-질’ 파생어에 대한 선행연구
3. 영어 접미사 ‘-er’과 한국어 접미사 ‘-이’
    3.1. 접미사 ‘er’ 붙은 명사들의 분석
    3.2. 접미사 ‘-이’ 붙은 명사들의 분석
4. 인지의미론의 관점에서 ‘-질’ 파생어 분석
    4.1. 행위자로 사건을 나타내는 환유
    4.2. 대상으로 사건을 나타내는 환유
    4.3. 도구로 사건을 나타내는 환유
    4.4. 방법으로 사건을 나타내는 환유
    4.5. 장소로 사건을 나타내는 환유
    4.6. 결과로 원인을 나타내는 환유
    4.7. 다의어와 다양한 어기의 사용
5. 결론
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