Abstract: In recent years cognitive linguists have shown that many grammatical structures are motivated by metonymic principles. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the role of metonymy in the emergence ...

Abstract: In this paper we present lexical data documenting the interaction of metonymy, metaphor, and iconicity in two signed languages, American Sign Language (ASL) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). The basis ...

Abstract: In the light of the automatic nature of the process of conceptual integration we examine the cognitive-conceptual status of the four types of mental spaces and their elements: the input spaces, the ge...

Abstract: Drawing the borderline between literal, metonymical and metaphorical uses of lexical units is by no means a trivial enterprise and a number of attempts have been made to establish intermediate categor...

Abstract: Since both metonymy and metaphor are, in the framework of cognitive linguistics, taken to be basic and universally attested processes that help shape conceptual structures and linguistic expressions, ...

Abstract: In this paper we provide evidence that conceptual metonymies are cross-linguistically significant in the coding of verbal aspect. Guillemin- Flescher (1981: Ch. 2), in an important contrastive study o...

Abstract: U radu se raspravlja o preslikavanju semantičkih uloga na gramatičku relaciju subjekta u svjetlu nekih spoznaja funkcionalne i kognitivne lingvistike. Autori pokazuju da je broj sintaktičkih procesa k...