Lexical facets and metonymy Lexical facets and metonymy
This article compares two accounts of the type of meaning alternation exhibited by book (“physical object”, as in a dusty book, and “abstract text”, as in a well-written book). The first account is Nunberg’s “dense metonymy” approach (Nunberg, 1995); the second is Cruse’s “facet” approach (Croft &am...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2008-04-01
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| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7348 |