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This research aims to analyze several aspects of meaning extension of Korean separation verbs such as ppay-ta, ppop-ta and ttu-ta, using their lexical co-occurrence and semantic preferences. The data used for this study is 3,192 sentences containing the three verbs which are collected from the 21st Sejong Balanced Corpus. Concerning the related works of semantic extension in nouns as well as in verbs, the majority of studies have focused on the description of synonyms or their distinction. Little is known about the semantic analysis of separation verbs and their meaning extension, especially from a point of view of lexical co-occurrence. In this paper, the examples containing ppay-ta, ppop-ta and ttu-ta were analyzed focusing on the prototypical meaning and their semantic preferences. Our findings suggest that the meaning extension of separation verbs could be described as follows: [removal], [movement], [acquisition], [selection], [separation] and others. (Pusan National University)