Acknowledgments Introduction Motivation and inference in the construction of meaning Part Ⅰ Motivation and metonymic inferencing Chapter 1 Motivation in language Chapter 2 Metonymy Chapter 3 The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction Chapter 4 Metonymy as a usage event Part Ⅱ Metonymic inferencing and pragmatics Chapter 5 A cognitive approach to inferencing in conversation Chapter 6 Antonymy in language structure and use Chapter 7 Metonymy and the way we speak Part Ⅲ Morphosyntactic constructions Chapter 8 The roles of metaphor and metonymy in English -er nominals Chapter 9 From syntactic coordination to conceptual modification: The case of the nice and Adj construction Chapter 10 Emotion and desire in independent complement clauses: A case study from German Part Ⅳ Metonymic inferencing across languages Chapter 11 The POTENTIALITY FOR ACTUALITY metonymy in English and Hungarian Chapter 12 Metonymy and lexical aspect in English and French Collected References