Metonymy and metaphor in grammar
By: edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona.
Contributors: Panther, Klaus-Uwe, 1942-; Thornburg, Linda L.; Barcelona, Antonio, 1952-
Series: Human cognitive processing -- v. 25
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027223791; 9789027289353
Subjects: Metonyms; Metaphor
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on figuration in grammar / Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg; title: Metonymic grammar / Ronald W. Langacker; title: Nouns are things : evidence for a grammatical metaphor? / Wiltrud Mihatsch; title: The role of metonymy in word formation : Brazilian Portuguese agent noun constructions / Margarida Basilio; title: The metonymic basis of a "semantic partial" : Tagalog lexical constructions with ka- / Gary B. Palmer, Russell S. Rader, and Art D. Clarito; title: A new model of metaphorization : case semantics in East Caucasian / Wolfgang Schulze; title: Aspect and metonymy in the French passé simple / Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg; title: Generic reference in English : a metonymic and conceptual blending analysis / Günter Radden; title: The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó; title: Metonymies we live without / Mario Brdar; title: Form is motion : dynamic predicates in English architectural discourse / Rosario Caballero; title: A metonymic analysis of Singaporean and Malaysian English : causative constructions / Debra Ziegeler and Sarah Lee; title: Metonymy in indirect directives : stand-alone conditionals in English,  German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Rita Brdar-Szabó; title: The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations / M. Sandra Peña Cervel and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez; title: Motivation of construction meaning and form : the roles of metonymy and inference / Antonio Barcelona.