Article outline

• 2.1Introduction
• 2.2Definition
  • An operational definition of metonymy
• 2.3Metonymy and contiguity
  • 2.3.1Peirsman and Geeraerts’ contiguity cline
  • 2.3.2Frames, schemas and degrees of contiguity
  • 2.3.3Probability and degrees of contiguity
• 2.4Onamosiological conventionality, and zone activation v. metonymy
• 2.5Conventionalisation of metonymies
• 2.6Some conventional metonymy themes
• 2.7Metonymy, deletion and semantic roles
• 2.8Interpreting metonymy according to the semantic
  elements of the clause
• 2.9Textually generated metonymies and local conventionalisation
• Notes