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An, Young-ran. 2014. A Cognitive Analysis of Phrasal Verb Take on. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 39-3, 453-484. Cognitive linguistics is an approach to language that is based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it. This kind of a particular conception of grammatical structure has run counter to the traditional view. About an utterance, “My car has broken down,” the traditional linguists would attempt to parse the meanings of the words used and go on to analyze the clause pattern, and so on. All these efforts are to converge into a tome of logical rules for generating the grammatically correct and semantically acceptable sentences. Unlike this trend, there have been efforts to found the root of all this linguistic discussion, which is called the cognitive grammar. This paper investigates the meaning of phrasal verb, take on, inter alia, in order to show how the cognitive grammar fits well in defining the meanings of words and phrases. The ultimate goal is to countenance the claim of the cognitive linguistics that the meanings of words and the ways of their combinations depend on the perception and categorization of the real world around us. (Korea Christian University)