TY - JOUR N2 - In this paper an attempt will be made to analyse a number of surnames either directly derived from animal names or variously associated with representatives of the animal world which may be said to embody and provide a variation on the general conceptual metaphor HUMAN BEING IS ANIMAL and/or the ANIMAL NAME FOR PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THAT NAME metonymy. Animal-related surnames represent a fragment of the English lexicon where morphology and (broadly understood) semantics meet and exert mutual infl uence on each other. It seems that in animal-based nomination language users employ such morphological mechanisms as, for example, affi xation or compounding which, in turn, seem to be conceptually motivated by metaphor and metonymy. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/108709/PDF/Linguistica%20Silesiana%2039%208-R.Kieltyka.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/108709 PY - 2018 DO - 10.24425/linsi.2018.124574 KW - metaphor KW - metonymy KW - animals KW - surnames KW - motivation A1 - Kiełtyka, Robert PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 39 DA - 2018.09.04 T1 - The semantic scope of English animal-specific surnames UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/108709 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -