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Not seeing trees for wood: A case study of metonymy-induced polysemy in Germanic and Slavic languages

t is possible to envisage a research situation where data are apparently in conflict with an otherwise conceptually plausible hypothesis based on embodiment, and perhaps even in conflict with some other set of data. The central methodological issue in the present paper is precisely of this type. In what follows we demonstrate this in a case study on an instance of metonymy-induced polysemy in which diachronic and (anthropological) typological evidence appear to be in conflict with what seems to be an otherwise conceptually plausible hypothesis. The case study has to do with the polysemy of terms for ‘tree’ and ‘wood’ in a variety of languages, but especially in Germanic and Slavic languages.

polysemy; metonymy; Slavic; embodiment; Germanic

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