UTJECAJ TRANZITIVNOSTI NA FIGURATIVNU UPOTREBU NOMINALIZACIJA
INFLUENCE OF TRANSITIVITY ON FIGURATIVE USE OF NOMINALIZATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses some aspects of polysemy of English nominalizations with the suffix -ion. First, we determine the central meaning of nominalizations with this suffix. Then, polysemy of these nominalizations is analysed using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. We show that the many meanings of these nominalizations are related by metaphorical and metonymic processes. We give some examples of metaphorical and metonymic extensions of the central meaning. We explain how the degree of transitivity of the nominalized verb and its closeness to the transitive prototype influences the choice as to whether the nominalization will have metaphorical or metonymic extension(s).

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