Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Metaphoric language and metaphoric thought -- 1.1 Conceptual metaphor -- 1.2 Words and constructions -- 1.3 Objectives and overview of the book -- 1.4 Framework and terminology -- Chapter 2. Frames in metaphor and meaning -- 2.1 Opening the semantic toolbox -- 2.2 What are semantic frames? -- 2.3 What are domains? -- 2.4 Frame structure in metaphor input domains -- 2.5 A frame-semantic model of autonomy and dependence -- Chapter 3. Frames and lexical choice in metaphor -- 3.1 Introduction and methodology -- 3.2 The Invariance Principle -- 3.3 Having a sunny disposition: Lexical choice in happiness is light -- 3.4 A brilliant plan: Lexical choice in intelligence is light-emission -- 3.5 The metaphoric and non-metaphoric senses of bright -- 3.6 Understanding is seeing and comprehensibility is visibility -- 3.7 Adjectives vs. adverbs: Brilliantly, clearly, brightly and sunnily -- Chapter 4. Frames in metonymic inferencing -- 4.1 Unmasking a metaphor look-alike -- 4.2 A frame-based model of metonymic inferencing -- 4.3 See 'meet with' and be seeing 'be dating' -- 4.4 Comparison with metaphor -- Chapter 5. Two types of adjective construction in metaphor -- 5.1 Constructional constraints on metaphor -- 5.2 Domain constructions -- 5.3 Predicating modifier constructions -- 5.4 Compounds -- Chapter 6. Argument structure constructions in metaphor -- 6.1 Verbs and their arguments -- 6.2 Intransitives -- 6.3 Domain-neutral items -- 6.4 Transitive constructions -- 6.5 Resultatives -- 6.6 Ditransitive constructions -- 6.7 Equations -- 6.8 A note on similes -- Chapter 7. Metaphoric preposition phrases and closed-class items -- 7.1 Variability in preposition phrases -- 7.2 Relational nouns in PPs -- 7.3 Event nouns in PPs.

7.4 The role of prepositions in specifying relations -- 7.5 Limitations on metaphoric closed-class items -- 7.6 Other closed classes -- Chapter 8. Repeated domain evocation and xyz constructions -- 8.1 Combining metaphoric constructions -- 8.2 Multiple target-domain items -- 8.3 Multiple source-domain items -- 8.4 The xyz constructions -- 8.5 Multiple source- and target-domain items -- 8.6 Combining conceptual metaphors -- Chapter 9. Metaphoric constructions beyond the clause -- 9.1 A range of constructional complexity -- 9.2 Relative clauses -- 9.3 Conditionals -- 9.4 Parallelism -- 9.5 Negation of the literal -- 9.6 Allegory -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- 10.1 Limitations -- 10.2 Building bridges -- References -- Primary sources -- Index of constructions -- Index.