ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of the semantic structures of classifier categories utilizing body part-based classifiers. It describes some of the representative body part-based classifiers that were chosen as the research subject. Detailed semantic analyses will be conducted to disclose the likely classifier categorization process and derive principled explanations for the connections and reasons behind the polysemic senses within the classifier categories. The entities under the classifier head can be categorized into the following groups: essays and medical prescriptions, poetry, songs, and music. The cognitive motivation and mechanism of a transition from a three-dimensional ball schema to a two-dimensional circular schema can be accounted for by image-schema transformation. Guiding principles ensure the continuation or success of an ongoing event or task. The connection between the face and the medals may be triggered by the sense of surface, which evokes the resemblance between the face of a person and the face of a medal.
