In Cognitive Linguistic Studies 3:2, 2016, 300-316. Metaphor and metonymy interacon paerns in Modern Greek Paraskevi Thomou University of Crete (Greece) Abstract Drawing on Cognive Linguiscs theories of metaphor and metonymy, in this paper we deal with the interacon between metaphor and metonymy in non-idiomac Greek expressions. Data from (self-compiled and electronic) corpora show that metonymy funcons together with metaphor as a realizaon of metaphtonymy, and the interacon paerns revealed here are closer to the ‘metaphor from metonymy’ type of interacon (Goossens 1995). It is also argued that a specific construcon is instanated in addion to metaphor and metonymy. Key-words: interacon paern, metaphor, metonymy, Modern Greek, emerging construcon, corpus-based study 1. Introducon Metaphor realizaon in authenc language data reveals interesng facts about theory on metaphor. Metaphor is quite oſten realized in combinaon with metonymy. The purpose of this corpus-based study is to invesgate the interacon between metaphor and metonymy as it is realized in Modern Greek language data. The interacon of the two figures is found in the following example: (1) I efimeriδa mas filokseni epikera arthra. The newspaper ours hosts current arcles. “Our newspaper hosts current arcles” 1