Métonymie et classes d’arguments
Metonimy and categories of arguments

Summary/Abstract: For a long time monopolized by the rhetoricians, the metonymy begins to be the object of some semantic works which remain however rather fragmentary, not offering global vision of the functioning of this mechanism. We give in this article a definition of the metonymy based on the theoretical model of the classes d’objets. We define then the relation between appropriate predicates and arguments suited as frame of analysis of the metonymical transfers of the predicates between correlated classes of arguments. Finally, it is through the examination of the relation between the classes of <producers> and <productions> that generates sentences like I’m reading an American author, I’m listening to Mozart, etc., that we study the metonymy of argumental type. Our analysis settles as objective the detection and the automatic generation of the metonymy.

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