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Conventionality-Governed Logical Metonymy (1996)
| Venue: | Proc. of IWCS-2 |
| Citations: | 10 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Verspoor96conventionality-governedlogical,
author = {Cornelia Maria Verspoor},
title = {Conventionality-Governed Logical Metonymy},
booktitle = {Proc. of IWCS-2},
year = {1996},
pages = {300--312}
}
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Abstract
I propose an account of logical metonymy which is governed by lexical specification of usage conventions. Extended corpus analysis is presented in favor of this proposal. The data indicates an extremely narrow range of use of metonymic constructions, suggesting that previous approaches which assume that this type of metonymy is a productive phenomenon constrained by a few rules fail to recognize its fundamental restrictedness. I propose instead that properties specified in the semantic component of individual lexical items will determine whether and how those items participate in metonymy constructions. Keywords: Lexical Semantics, Corpus Analysis 1 Introduction Logical metonymy is a phenomenon in which more meaning than is directly attributable to sentential components arises with certain verb/noun combinations. It occurs for some verbs having alternate syntactic complement forms with only a single semantic interpretation. In particular, logical metonymy refers to the use of a noun ...
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conventionality-governed logical metonymy corpus analysis productive phenomenon lexical semantics certain verb noun combination metonymic construction metonymy construction introduction logical metonymy semantic component single semantic interpretation fundamental restrictedness sentential component alternate syntactic complement form individual lexical item previous approach usage convention logical metonymy narrow range lexical specification logical metonymy refers
