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What is compatible with what? Or, reducing the collocational chaos in the predicate-argument structure, with a little help from metonymy

The present paper argues that metonymy as a basic cognitive process provides us with an extremely useful tool in keeping a balance between the richness of data input, on the one hand, and the optimal degree of generality in their interpretation and presenta-tion, on the other. It is argued that introducing metonymy (as it is understood in cogni-tive linguistics) into the conceptual apparatus of lexico-grammatical enterprises, in this specific case, into the account of the predicate-argument structure, as well as into the whole lexicon structure, may result in making lexicographic handbooks more functional and streamlined, individual entries becoming more compact. In fact, it is argued that it in fact may result in an increase of the generative power of lexico-graphic handbooks in the sense of enabling their users to make relatively safe guesses about the acceptability of some novel grammatical combinations not actually recorded in the lexicon or corpora.

metonymy; valency; collocations; selectional restrictions

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