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International Journal For Innovative Engineering and Management Research, 2020 The word as a spiritual unit has lexical and grammatical semantics. Lexicology considers a word as a unit of the lexical content of a language, making lexical semantics, the basic unit of the lexical meaning of a word, its main object of study. The lexical semantics of a word refers to the relativity of a word to certain events in reality, taking into ...
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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Polysemy of Ablative Case in Turkish: An Application within the Framework of Cognitive Linguistics
Dilbilim Araştırmaları DergisiCognitive linguistics, which argues that language progresses on a simultaneous acceleration rather than consisting of independent modules, defines these commonalities through polysemy and metaphorical structures.
Betül SOYLU, Ayşe Eda GÜNDOĞDU
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Addiction, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 241-260, February 2026.Abstract Background and Aims Comprehensive community initiatives (CCI) aimed at reducing or preventing alcohol or other drug (AOD) harms incorporate multiple initiatives delivered to whole communities to effect community‐level change on sociocultural and environmental factors.
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SUFFIXES FORMING AFFIXAL POLYSEMY OF LEXICALDERIVATIVES OF MUTATIONAL TYPE
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014 The paper studies suffixal derivational formants which render the mutational word-forming meaning. They form polysemantic verbal nouns. The author describes one of types of the derivational polysemy – the affixal polysemy of lexicalderivatives of the ...
V. N. Musatov
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POLYSEMY TYPES AND LEVELS OF FRENCH LINGUISTIC TERMS (based on the material of the French language)
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические наукиThe lexical analysis of scientific terms in the works of French-speaking linguists (from F. de Saussure to modern researchers) allows identifying the epistemological reasons for the development of semantics and the formation of polysemy of terminological
Denis S. Zolotukhin
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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The cognitive role of concept variability
Mind &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
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Études romanes de Brno, 2014 Long before the coining of the term "polysemy" (Bréal 1897) the many senses of linguistic units have been analyzed, such as sacred, legal or literary texts, logical propositions, scholarly terms or simple words.
Françoise Douay
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Gaussian hierarchical latent Dirichlet allocation: Bringing polysemy back. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Yoshida T, Hisano R, Ohnishi T.
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