Introduction Motivation and inference in the construction of meaning 1
Part Ⅰ Motivation and metonymic inferencing 25
Chapter 1 Motivation in language 25
Chapter 2 Metonymy 55
Chapter 3 The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction 89
Chapter 4 Metonymy as a usage event 119
Part Ⅱ Metonymic inferencing and pragmatics 161
Chapter 5 A cognitive approach to inferencing in conversation 161
Chapter 6 Antonymy in language structure and use 181
Chapter 7 Metonymy and the way we speak 209
Part Ⅲ Morphosyntactic constructions 233
Chapter 8 The roles of metaphor and metonymy in English-er nominals 233
Chapter 9 From syntactic coordination to conceptual modification：The case of the nice and Adj construction 269
Chapter 10 Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses：A case study from German 307
Part Ⅳ Metonymic inferencing across languages 343
Chapter 11 The POTENTIALITY FOR ACTUALITY metonymy in English and Hungarian 343
Chapter 12 Metonymy and lexical aspect in English and French 371
Collected References 401