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Dictionary of language and linguistics 746Thompson, H.S. 1982. Handling metarules in a parser for GPSG. In M.Barlow, D.Flickinger, andJ.Sag (eds), Developments in Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Bloomington, IN. 26–37.Uszkoreit, H. and S.Peters. 1986. On some formal properties of metarules. L&P 9 .477–94.metathesis [Grk metáthesis ‘transposition,change’]Switching of consonants within etymologically related words: nuclear vs nucular,Christian vs Kirsten, Eng. burn vs Ger. brennen. Apart from such individual cases,‘regular’ forms of metathesis can be attributed primarily to syllable structure, e.g.adaptation to universally preferred sound sequences in syllables. In South and WestSlavic there is regular metathesis of liquids vis-à-vis Proto-Slavic, cf. PSlav. *berza‘birch’ with Church Slavic. brěza, Serb. ( Serbo-Croatian) breza, Polish brzoza,Czech bříza.language change, sound changeReferencesmetonymy [Grk metōnymía ‘change ofname’]The replacement of an expression by a factually related term. The semantic connection isof a causal, spatial, or temporal nature and is therefore broader than synecdoche, butnarrower than metaphor. Common types of substitution are author/work—to read JaneAusten; product/ material—to wear leather; container/contents to have a cuppa;place/resident—The White House.ReferencesRuwet, N. 1975. Synecdoque et métonymie. Poé-tique 6. 371–88.rhetoric, trope