Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of usage in context

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research 1
4. Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of variation in meaning 29
5. Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology 67
6. Monosemy versus polysemy 93
7. The grammaticalization of alltså and således: Two Swedish conjuncts revisited 123
8. Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning 163
9. Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of usage in context 211
10. Growth of a lexical network: Nine English prepositions in acquisition 243
11. Image schemas and category coherence: The case of the Portuguese verb deixar 281
12. The Nawatl verb kīsa: A case study in polysemy 323
13. A diachronic perspective on prototypicality: The case of nominal adjectives in Japanese 363
14. Containment, support, and linguistic relativity 393
15. The Dutch hedges echt and gewoon: Markers of prototypicality? 427
16. Polysemy or generality? Mu. 447
17. Backmatter 495