... 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). ... reading and lowering both recall and precision. Bad predictors are the verbs “tohave” and “to be” and some prepositions suchas “with”, which can be used with metonymic(talk with Hungary) and literal ... (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...