Ontological and Grammatical Constraints on Metaphor Productivity
[Read Full-Text] Traditional approaches view metaphor as a semantic/pragmatic phenomenon that occurs at a conceptual level as mappings between independent concepts. These conceptual mappings are then lexicalized into observed metaphoric expressions. In this view, the lexical and grammatical structure of a metaphoric expression is not relevant to the underlying metaphor’s level of productivity. This paper … More Ontological and Grammatical Constraints on Metaphor Productivity