Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata

Dirven, René

doi:10.1075/hcp.4.16dir

In:Metonymy in Language and Thought
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
[Human Cognitive Processing 4] 1999
► pp. 275–288

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Conversion as a Conceptual Metonymy of Event Schemata

René Dirven

Published online: 15 September 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.4.16dir

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