Logical Metonymy

 

 
• Introduction
• Analysis of the meaning variation
• The range of the data
  • Word knowledge represented in Qualia Structure
  • Problematic data
• An Analysis
  • Proposed constraints on Logical Metonymy
    • Godard & Jayez (1993)
    • Pustejovsky & Bouillon
  • Problematic data remaining
• An Alternative
  • {eventive verb + VP}
  • {eventive verb + NP} and Corpus-supported conventions
    • The Analysis: Methodology and Assumptions
    • The Data
    • Conclusions about Logical Metonymy
  • The Representation
  • Logical Metonymy and Pragmatics
    • The Analysis
    • Infeasibility of a purely pragmatic explanation
    • Choice of eventive structure
• Conclusions