Acknowledgments
Introduction Motivation and inference in the construction of meaning
Part Ⅰ Motivation and metonymic inferencing
Chapter 1 Motivation in language
Chapter 2 Metonymy
Chapter 3 The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction
Chapter 4 Metonymy as a usage event
Part Ⅱ Metonymic inferencing and pragmatics
Chapter 5 A cognitive approach to inferencing in conversation
Chapter 6 Antonymy in language structure and use
Chapter 7 Metonymy and the way we speak
Part Ⅲ Morphosyntactic constructions
Chapter 8 The roles of metaphor and metonymy in English -er nominals
Chapter 9 From syntactic coordination to conceptual modification: The case of the nice and Adj construction
Chapter 10 Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses: A case study from German
Part Ⅳ Metonymic inferencing across languages
Chapter 11 The POTENTIALITY FOR ACTUALITY metonymy in English and Hungarian
Chapter 12 Metonymy and lexical aspect in English and French
Collected References