This article develops an analysis of three types of Korean Relative Clauses (RCs) from a Cognitive Grammar perspective. The three types under examination are the Internally Headed RC Construction (IHRCC), the Externally Headed RC Construction (EHRCC), and the Double RC Construction (DRCC) which is a subtype of the EHRCC. It is demonstrated that the notion of metonymy helps us properly tease out the nature and provide a uniform account of the hitherto neglected Korean RC constructions. The “mismatch” observed between the syntactic object and the semantic head in the IHRCC is nothing but a case of the active-zone/profile discrepancy. The putative island constraint or subjacency violations in the EHRC and the DRCC are not an issue because the head nominals in those examples are associated with reference points that are exocentrically-created and thus exist outside of the inner RCs.

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韩语关系从句：转喻、区域激活和参考点*

本文从认知语法的角度对三种类型的韩国关系从句 (RCs) 进行了分析。正在检查的三种类型是内部带头的 RC 结构 (IHRCC)、外部带头的 RC 结构 (EHRCC) 和双 RC 结构 (DRCC)，它是 EHRCC 的一个子类型。事实证明，转喻的概念有助于我们正确梳理本质，并为迄今为止被忽视的韩国 RC 结构提供统一的描述。在 IHRCC 中观察到的句法对象和语义头之间的“不匹配”只不过是活动区域/配置文件差异的一个案例。