How to disentangle the metonymy – word-formation puzzle

Abstract

The book ‘Metonymy and Word- Formation. Their Interactions and Complementation’ authored by Mario Brdar, proposes an original, insightful and extremely valuable look into the relation between two linguistic phenomena: metonymy and word formation. By revisiting the role and, even more importantly, the impact of metonymy on the development of grammar, this work contributes to our understanding of both metonymy, as well as (its role within) the development of grammatical or, rather, linguistic systems as such.