... (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Fass, 1997;Stern, 1931)). In a place -for- people pattern,a place stands for any persons/organisations associ-ated with it, e.g., for sports teams in (2), (3), and (4), and ... and Agirre, 2000): 0.1 is added to both the de-nominator and numerator.The target readings to be distinguished areliteral, place -for- people, place -for- event, place -for- product, othermet and mixed. ... metonymy) that “England” and “Scot-land” in (3) and (4) are also metonymic. In order to2Due to its regularity, conventional metonymy is also knownas regular polysemy (Copestake and Briscoe, 1995)....