The Concept of 'Syntactic Metaphor' and its Background in the Philosophy of Language

Abstract

The following paper tries to develop, in an introductory fashion, the concept of a 'syntactic metaphor'. Although the concept of metaphor is being highly debated nowadays I have not found it applied to the domain of syntax. So hopefully I am offering  here something new. I am myself curious whether it
will turn out to be a legitimate and useful concept or not; so I do welcome the opportunity to present my arguments and I will be thankful for comments and criticism.