Creative Compounding in English: The Semantics of Metaphorical and Metonymical Noun-Noun Combinations

Creative Compounding in English......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
dedication page......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of figures......Page 14
Notation......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 17
1. Introduction and some basic concepts......Page 18
1.1. Scope of this study......Page 20
1.2. What is a compound?......Page 24
1.3. Endocentric and exocentric compounds......Page 25
1.4. Nonce words and neologisms......Page 26
1.5. The data......Page 28
1.6. Structure of the book......Page 29
I. Theory and past approaches......Page 30
2. Descriptivists, transformationalists and alternative theories......Page 32
2.1. Descriptivist approaches......Page 33
2.2. Analyses within the transformationalist/generativist framework......Page 37
2.3. Alternative approaches......Page 47
2.4. Summary......Page 55
3.1. Establishing a new linguistic philosophy......Page 58
3.2. The Langackerian system of grammar......Page 62
3.3. Conceptual metaphor......Page 64
3.4. Conceptual metonymy......Page 67
3.5. Blending......Page 70
3.6. Methodology......Page 75
3.7. Summary......Page 84
4.1. Contested concepts......Page 86
4.2. Idiomaticity......Page 94
4.3. Storage versus computation?......Page 99
4.4. Summary......Page 101
II. Analysing creative compounds......Page 104
5. Metaphor-based compounds......Page 106
5.1. Metaphor-based modifier......Page 108
5.2. Metaphor-based profile determinant......Page 113
5.3. Double metaphorical processing: metaphor-based modifier and profile determinant......Page 119
5.4. Summary......Page 122
6. Metaphor-based semantic relation between the constituents of the compound......Page 124
6.1. Image metaphors......Page 125
6.2. Monsters and zombies......Page 134
6.3. Personification: bandit sign......Page 135
6.4. Single-scope blends......Page 136
6.5. Double-scope blends......Page 154
6.6. Summary......Page 157
7.1. Metonymy-based modifier......Page 158
7.2. Metonymy-based profile determinant......Page 170
7.3. Double metonymical processing: metonymy-based modifier and profile determinant......Page 172
7.4. The compound as a whole is metonymical......Page 174
7.5. Metonymy-based relation between the two constituents of the compound......Page 177
7.6. Summary......Page 179
8. Metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds......Page 180
8.1. Metaphor-based semantic relationship between the constituents of the compound and metonymy-based modifier......Page 182
8.2. Metaphor-based semantic relationship between the constituents of the compound and metonymy-based profile determinant......Page 188
8.3. Metonymy-based modifier and metaphor based profile determinant......Page 190
8.4. Metaphor-based modifier and metonymy-based profile determinant......Page 196
8.5. Summary......Page 197
9. A brief overview and the wider perspective......Page 200
9.1. The results: systematic creativity......Page 201
9.2. Alternative construal and motivation......Page 202
9.3. The wider perspective......Page 204
Appendix......Page 208
References......Page 213
General index......Page 220
Metaphor and metonymy index......Page 223
The series Human Cognitive Processing......Page 224