An analysis and a few modest proposals: Metonymy in cognitive linguistics

Barcelona, Antonio

doi:10.1075/cilt.243.15bar

In:Motivation in Language: Studies in honor of Günter Radden
Edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven † and Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 243] 2003
► pp. 223–255

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Metonymy in cognitive linguistics

An analysis and a few modest proposals

Antonio Barcelona

Published online: 17 July 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.243.15bar

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