Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar

Abstract

1. Editors and contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: On figuration in grammar (by Panther, Klaus-Uwe) 4. Metonymic grammar (by Langacker, Ronald W.) 5. Part 1. Word class meaning and word formation 6. Nouns are THINGS: Evidence for a grammatical metaphor? (by Mihatsch, Wiltrud) 7. The role of metonymy in word formation: Brazilian Portuguese agent noun constructions (by Basilio, Margarida Maria de Paula) 8. The metonymic basis of a 'semantic partial': Tagalog lexical constructions with ka- (by Palmer, Gary B.) 9. Part 2. Case and aspect 10. A new model of metaphorization: Case semantics in East Caucasian (by Schulze, Wolfgang) 11. Aspect and metonymy in the French passe simple (by Panther, Klaus-Uwe) 12. Part 3. Proper names and noun phrases 13. Generic reference in English: A metonymic and conceptual blending analysis (by Radden, Gunter) 14. The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian (by Brdar, Mario) 15. Metonymies we live without (by Brdar, Mario) 16. Part 4. Predicate and clause constructions 17. FORM IS MOTION: Dynamic predicates in English architectural discourse (by Caballero, Rosario) 18. A metonymic analysis of Singaporean and Malaysian English causative constructions (by Ziegeler, Debra) 19. Metonymy in indirect directives: Stand-alone conditionals in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian (by Brdar-Szabo, Rita) 20. Part 5. Metonymic and metaphoric motivations of grammatical meaning 21. The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations (by Pena Cervel, Maria Sandra) 22. Motivation of construction meaning and form: The roles of metonymy and inference (by Barcelona, Antonio) 23. Metonymy and metaphor index 24. Name index 25. Subject index