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Abstract

Abstract

Metonymy of a predicate, in which the source event implies the target event, is called . This paper focused on a Japanese productive predicational metonymy, , and described its linguistic preference in terms of aspectual construal based on a corpus-driven quantitative investigation. The results revealed that an event that is bounded and durative is preferred as the metonymic vehicle in metonymy. The two cognitive principles, and , were proposed to explain the linguistic preference. It was suggested that the two principles can be subsumed under the fundamental cognitive principle of G G, and that this general principle governs metonymic preference of both predicates and nominal phrases.

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