This study describes metonymic argument alternations, in which a constructional slot can be filled by any of a set of semantic roles that index one another, and provides a diachronic corpus analysis of two such alternations in French. In the Reveal secret frame and other communication frames, the Medium can indexically replace the Speaker and the Topic can indexically replace the Information. A regression analysis shows that while topic for information metonymy is more syntactically and pragmatically restricted, medium for speaker metonymy has seen an increase in usage over time across the frame. This change is related to sociocultural developments and has implications for the study of figurative language and lexical semantic change. While it is well understood that figurative mechanisms such as metonymy affect language change, here it is demonstrated that cultural shifts drive changes in metonymies themselves, with corresponding impacts for linguistic structure.

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法语交流框架中的转喻和论证交替

这项研究描述了转喻论证交替，其中一个构造槽可以由一组相互索引的语义角色中的任何一个来填充，并提供了法语中两个这样的交替的历时语料库分析。在里面揭秘框架和其他通信框架，Medium可以索引替换Speaker，Topic可以索引替换Information。回归分析表明，虽然信息主题转喻在句法和语用上受到更多限制，扬声器介质随着时间的推移，转喻的使用在整个框架中有所增加。这种变化与社会文化发展有关，并对比喻语言和词汇语义变化的研究产生影响。虽然众所周知，转喻等比喻机制会影响语言变化，但这里证明了文化转变推动了转喻本身的变化，并对语言结构产生了相应的影响。