Brdar Mario. Metonymy and Word-Formation:Their Interactions and Complementation

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 260 p. The present volume is concerned with how two understudied phenomena, metonymy and word-formation, interact and complement each other in everyday use of language. The two phenomena have always been considered
as less than central in the study of language. This is true of metonymy even within the cognitive linguistic framework, let alone outside it.
Recent years have seen a sort of awakening and ever more intensive cognitive linguistic research on metonymy, but it is still less well understood
than one might wish for. At the same time, the picture that appears to be emerging from this recent surge of interest in conceptual metonymy seems
to indicate that its role in structuring human thought, behaviour, including linguistic behaviour, is no less central than that of conceptual metaphor.