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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 117–138

Chapter 5
Metaphor and metonymy and new words

Article outline
  • 5.1Introduction
  • 5.2Process of lexicogenesis
  • 5.3Types of semantic change
    • 5.3.1Transfer and splitting
    • 5.3.2Prototype theory, narrowing, widening and shifting
  • 5.4Lexicogenesis and metaphor/metonymy
    • 5.4.1Applying our definitions of metaphor and metonymy to lexicogenesis
    • 5.4.2Forms of lexicogenesis in relation to metaphor and metonymy
      • 5.4.2.1Semantic-only change or lexical (preserving word-class and form)
      • 5.4.2.2Conversion (preserving form but changing word-class)
      • 5.4.2.3Suffixation (adding bound-morpheme to end of form,
        generally changing word-class)
      • 5.4.2.4Prefixation
      • 5.4.2.5Compounding
      • 5.4.2.6Idiomatisation
      • 5.4.2.7Blending, acronymy, initialisation and clipping
        (subtracting from form, preserving word-class)
      • 5.4.2.8Back-formation
  • 5.5Summary
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