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Polysemy's paradoxes

Language Sciences, 2003
Abstract This article reviews some recent publications dealing with the phenomenon of polysemy, and addresses some of the questions which they raise. According to a generally accepted definition, polysemy is the association of two or more related senses with a single phonological form. In many respects, the definition is highly problematic. Important
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Polysemy

Historiographia Linguistica, 1997
Summary40 years ago Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy was the pivot of semantics. He was referring then to traditional synchronic and diachronic semantics. Nowadays, some 40 years later, polysemy has again become a central topic in cognitive semantics.
Brigitte Nerlich, David D. Clarke
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Virtual polysemy

Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1994
We present an approach to lexical knowledge representation where different uses of the same word can be conflated into a single meta-entry which encodes regularities about sense/usage extensibility. This approach makes it possible to solve lexical ambiguities by using contextual information during language processing to ground underspecified word ...
Antonio Sanfilippo   +2 more
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POLYSEMY

1984
Abstract The aspect of polysemy which I wish to address in this paper concerns the issue of how working lexicographers divide lexical items or words into different, usually numbered, meanings. It is not infrequently stated that lexicographers are somewhat shy of explaining their own techniques – or are perhaps too busy to do so – or even
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Polysemy

2003
Setting the scene Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke Cognitive models of polysemy John R. Taylor Polysemy: past and present Brigitte Nerlich Cognitive approaches Polysemy and conceptual blending Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over Andrea ...
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