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Takachi, Tomonari. 2011. An Essay on the Meaning Structure of '-keyss-' from the Polysemy View. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 36-1, 93-116. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the meaning structure of the pre-final ending '-keyss-' from the polysemy view. In effect '-keyss-' represents modal, temporal, aspectual and pragmatic meanings in sentences. Literature based on monosemy view regarded a semantic feature 'irrealis', 'non-real', or 'unreal' as the core meaning of '-keyss-', but this perspective is an implausible result. We think that the various meanings of '-keyss-' doesn't share unitary underspecified meaning, but they forms a meaning chain like the family resemblance. Adopting a Cognitive Linguistic framework, and building on Sweeter(1990), we have come to a conclusion that the epistemic meaning of '-keyss-' is extended from the deontic or dynamic meanings of that as the result of the metaphorical mapping. (Woosong University)