The metonymic basis of a 'semantic partial': Tagalog lexical constructions with ka-

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction: On figuration in grammar 1
6. Metonymic grammar 45
7. Part 1. Word class meaning and word formation
8. Nouns are THINGS: Evidence for a grammatical metaphor? 75
9. The role of metonymy in word formation: Brazilian Portuguese agent noun constructions 99
10. The metonymic basis of a 'semantic partial': Tagalog lexical constructions with ka- 111
11. Part 2. Case and aspect
12. A new model of metaphorization: Case semantics in East Caucasian 147
13. Aspect and metonymy in the French passé simple 177
14. Part 3. Proper names and noun phrases
15. Generic reference in English: A metonymic and conceptual blending analysis 199
16. The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian 229
17. Metonymies we live without 259
18. Part 4. Predicate and clause constructions
19. FORM IS MOTION: Dynamic predicates in English architectural discourse 277
20. A metonymic analysis of Singaporean and Malaysian English causative constructions 291
21. Metonymy in indirect directives: Stand-alone conditionals in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian 323
22. Part 5. Metonymic and metaphoric motivations of grammatical meaning
23. The metonymic and metaphoric grounding of two image-schema transformations 339
24. Motivation of construction meaning and form: The roles of metonymy and inference 363
25. Metonymy and metaphor index 403
26. Name index 407
27. Subject index 415