Original scientific article
Page 121 - 138

High-level action metonymies in English and Spanish

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
E-mail: francisco.ruiz@dfm.unirioja.es
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1200-2850
Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Edificio de Filología

Olga Isabel Díez Velasco
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1200-2850
Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Edificio de Filología
Abstract: In this paper we postulate the existence of two high-level metonymies, ACTION FOR PROCESS and ACTION FOR (ASSESSED) RESULT, that we believe correlate respectively with cases of the causative/inchoativ...
Original scientific article
Page 71 - 101

Metonymy and lexical aspect in English and French

Klaus-Uwe Panther
E-mail: panther@uni-hamburg.de
Department of English and American Studies, Hamburg University

Linda L. Thornburg
Department of English and American Studies, Hamburg University
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...
Original scientific article
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The MANNER FOR ACTIVITY metonymy across domains and languages

Rita Brdar-Szabó
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-4285
Eötvös Loránd University

Mario Brdar
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-4285
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Osijeku
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, ...