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The purpose of this paper is to compare and analyze the meanings of the Korean temporal expressions ponayta ‘spend’ and cinayta ‘stay’in a cognitive-linguistic way. The word ponayta originally means the spatial transmission of an object. This meaning is extended into the temporal meaning in terms of the work of metaphor. In this process, ponayta is combined mainly with those temporal nouns that have the features [+eventiveness] and [+segmentation].Cinayta also is related to expressions of movement in a spatial sense. Cinayta is the causative form of the verb cinata ‘pass.’ Nouns combined with cinata in its spatial concept has the semantic features of [+mobility] and [+progressiveness]. This has been transformed into the causative form cinayta, which in turn has been realized as a temporal expression through the working of metaphor.Though both ponayta and cinayta have come to be used for temporal expression due to such working of metaphor, language users’ cognitive differences are reflected between them. Ponayta eventualizes time in relation with the work of human memory. However, with cinayta, time’s own properties including its length and continuity come to the surface.