The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian

Brdar, Mario; Brdar-Szabó, Rita

doi:10.1075/hcp.25.14brd

In:Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona
[Human Cognitive Processing 25] 2009
► pp. 229–257

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The (non-)metonymic use of place names in English, German, Hungarian, and Croatian

Mario Brdar

Rita Brdar-Szabó

Published online: 29 July 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.25.14brd

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