METONYMICALOBJECTCHANGES Acorpus â orientedstudyonDutchandGerman Linguistshavebecomeawarethatmetonymyisnotjustacontiguity â basedfigureofspeechbutthat itisapervasivecognitive â linguisticmechanismwhichinfluencesdifferentlinguisticlevels.This linguisticinsightisreflectedinDutchandGermandictionaries , whichusemetonymy â tags , formany examples , formanysensesandformanywordcombinations , suchasverbsthatcanbecombined withdifferenttypesofdirectobjects.Aspecificlabelusedforthelastphenomenonis objectsverwisselingorObjektsvertauschung , whichcouldbetranslatedasMetonymicalObject Change ( MOC ) . MOCsarebetterknowninlinguisticsastransitivelocativealternations , material â productalternations andinstancesoflogicalmetonymy.Thisdissertationanalysesthesethreetypesofargument alternationsasmetonymy â based.Thefocusoftheanalysisisthereforeonthecontiguityrelation betweenthedifferentpossibledirectobjects.Inallcases , itisthisrelationwhichunderliesand restrictsthepossibilityofchangingadirectobject . AqualitativeanalysisofcorpusdataisusedtoexamineMOCsinDutchandGerman.Thismakesthis studycorpus â oriented.TheinterpretationofMOCsismodelledinaframesemanticapproach . ThisdissertationnotonlyexaminesandclarifiestheconceptofMOCbyanalysingalargenumberof data â whichcouldbeusefulfromalexicographicalperspective â , butitalsoprovidestheoretical insightsintothephenomenonofmetonymyingeneral .
