%0 Journal Article
%T Some reflections on metonymy and word-formation
%A Brdar
%A Mario
%A Brdar-Szab¨®
%A Rita
%J -
%D 2013
%X Sa£¿etak The present article is concerned with the question about the nature of the metonymic phenomena that can be observed in word-formation. We argue that, contra Janda (2011), very little metonymic takes place in word-formation per se, as part of grammar, and that metonymic phenomena that can be observed in relation to word-formation phenomena are actually lexical in nature, in the fairly strict sense of the term. Specifically, we demonstrate on a series of suffixations, compounds and reduplications that most of the time we either have metonymic shifts prior to word-formation, or metonymic shifts posterior to word-formation. In other words, metonymic shifts are either found in the input for word-formation, or operate on its output. Metonymy seems to operate simultaneously with a word-formation process only with what has been referred to as non-concatenative morphology
%K metonymy
%K word-formation
%K grammar
%K suffixation
%K compound
%K reduplication
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