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LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL POTENTIAL OF THE VERB LASSEN IN MODERN GERMAN

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2014
A solution to the problem of verbal meaning identity is offered with the support of semantic analysis of the verb lassen and determination of grammatical construction types with it. Studies of dictionary definitions helped to reveal formal and conceptual
Rogozhnikova Irina Nikolaevna
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A lexikális jelentésviszonyok élményközpontú tanítása multimediális szövegekkel [Experience-based teaching of lexical-semantic relatedness by multimedial texts] [PDF]

open access: yesJelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2017
This paper intends to describe new ways of teaching lexical-semantic relatedness with the help of texts and image-text relations published primarily on Facebook.
Szerdi, Ilona
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The cognitive role of concept variability

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 66-87, February 2026.
I present and defend concept variability, the view that concepts can admit of indefinitely many variations and changes in their representational contents without thereby losing their identity. I argue that the variability of concepts is central to their role in enabling cognition, and thus that a concept's content variability is, despite philosophical ...
Alnica Visser
wiley   +1 more source

The polysemy of “I”

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 2-20, February 2026.
Orthodoxy assumes that the first‐person thoughts of an individual are anchored to a stable object. I challenge this assumption by arguing that “I” is polysemous. The perspectival anchor of a first‐person thought could be the bearer of the thought, the agent, the bearer of perception, or a body, to name just a few options.
Susanna Schellenberg
wiley   +1 more source

L’eponimo arabo Jurhum: La questione etimologica e delle fonti

open access: yesKervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2018
The etymology of the Arab eponym Jurhum is here investigated on the basis of the contexts in which it occurs in historiographical sources and the meanings of the adjective jurhum, as attested in lexicographical sources.
Francesco Grande
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Polysemy and Homonymy : Difficulties for Japanese Learners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This essay refers to semantic categories of English, polysemy and homonymy, and also to vocabulary learning by Japanese learners. Categorization of these two is not easy for non-native speakers like the Japanese.
簗瀬, 正子   +4 more
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Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 472-491, November 2025.
The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
wiley   +1 more source

Particle homonymy and machine translation [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics -, 1986
The purpose of this contribution is to formulate ways in which the homonymy of socalled 'Model Particles' and their etymons can be handled. Our aim is to show that not only a strategy for this type of homonymy can be worked out, but also a formalization of information beyond propositional content can be introduced with a view to its MT application.
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Applied Problems of Functional Homonymy Resolution for Russian Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Applied problems of functional homonymy resolution for Russian language are investigated in the work. The results obtained while using the method of functional homonymy resolution based on contextual rules are presented.
Nevzorova, Olga   +2 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China and A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes

open access: yesLingual
Notwithstanding the fact that 幽默 youmo ‘humour’ is a neologism and transliteration coined in the 1920s, the conception has been existing in Chinese civilisation for millennia. The earliest extant treatise on humour in Chinese literature is regarded to be
Aiqing Wang
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