Non-Canonical English Resultative Constructions: Metaphor and Metonymy
The article is a case study that discusses metaphor and metonymy in non-canonical resultative constructions of the AP and PP type. The observations show that metaphor can interact with metonymy or they both demonstrate conflation yet it is metaphor that creates non-prototypical gestalt marking of non-canonical constructions. The High-Level Metaphors and Metonymies in non-canonical constructions are sort of schemas governing the process of thinking. Nevertheless, metaphor is believed to be the basic mental operation, means of cognition, construing and interpretation of the world.