Metonymy and metaphor in grammar / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona.

Other author Panther, Klaus-Uwe, 1942-
Other author Thornburg, Linda L.
Other author Barcelona, Antonio, 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Descriptionxi, 423 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

SeriesHuman cognitive processing ; v. 25
Partial contents Metonymic grammar / Ronald W. Langacker -- Nouns are things : evidence for a grammatical metaphor? / Wiltrud Mihatsch -- The role of metonymy in word formation : Brazilian Portuguese agent noun constructions / Margarida Basilio -- The metonymic basis of a "semantic partial" : Tagalog lexical constructions with ka- / Gary B. Palmer, Russell S. Rader, and Art D. Clarito -- A new model of metaphorization : case semantics in East Caucasian / Wolfgang Schulze -- Aspect and metonymy in the French passé simple / Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg -- Generic reference in English : a metonymic and conceptual blending analysis / Günter Radden -- The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó -- Metonymies we live without / Mario Brdar -- Form is motion : dynamic predicates in English architectural discourse / Rosario Caballero -- A metonymic analysis of Singaporean and Malaysian English : causative constructions / Debra Ziegeler and Sarah Lee -- Metonymy in indirect directives : stand-alone conditionals in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian / Rita Brdar-Szabó -- The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations / M. Sandra Peña Cervel and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez -- Motivation of construction meaning and form : the roles of metonymy and inference / Antonio Barcelona.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009012594
ISBN9789027223791 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN9789027289353 (eb)