Motivation of construction meaning and form: The roles of metonymy and inference

Barcelona, Antonio

doi:10.1075/hcp.25.22bar

In:Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona
[Human Cognitive Processing 25] 2009
► pp. 363–401

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Motivation of construction meaning and form: The roles of metonymy and inference

Antonio Barcelona

Published online: 29 July 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.25.22bar

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