Lee, Heechul. 1999. Frame Semantics, Idealized Models, and Category Structure. Linguistics, 7-1, 127-138. Jackendoff (1989) contains an analysis of the meaning of the verb climb in terms of preference rules. In such an analysis, we can define a given use of a word as more `prototypical` if more of the "preference rules" are satisfied in the situation in which the word is used. In his two frame semantics articles, Fillmore (1982, 1985) suggests another analysis of `prototype effects` of the kind Rosch (1981) studies. The question in part of this paper is, what would be the analysis of climb in a frame semantics approach? How does it account for the relative prototypicality of the uses of the word climb? The point of another part of this paper is to help people understand the category better. It takes an idealized model and define rape with respect to this model as Sweetser (1987) dig for lie. Sweetser`s (1987) article shows an example of a concept being defined relative to an idealized model, namely, the concept of lying. Sweetser (1987) ????ons that modifiers of the noun lie are typically used to indicate that some of the conditions which hold of the idealized model do not hold of, tie situation under discussion. Part of this paper attempts to provide a similar` analysis for rape. (Chonbuk National University)