We are presenting at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Newcastle, UK in July 2015, focusing on the conceptual and empirical aspects of the grammatical constructions in metaphor, with a focus on nominal constructions. "Metonymy, metaphors, and constructions in a corpus-based Embodied Construction Grammar framework" (in the program: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-1...).