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Lexical and grammatical arity-reduction: The case of reciprocity in Romance languages. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Lang Linguist Theory
Palmieri G   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Polysemy

open access: yesHistoriographia 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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Polysemy

2016
Polysemy is an interesting phenomenon that concerns cases in which a word or phrase enjoys multiple, related meanings. This article distinguishes polysemy from similar phenomena and presents some tests for determining the presence of polysemy. In addition, polysemy is differentiated from other phenomena that involve potential multiplicity of meaning ...
Adam Sennet
exaly   +2 more sources

Polysemy, Copredication, and Polysemy-centric Approaches

Abstract This chapter discusses Polysemy-centric approaches to copredication, as well as discussing the relationship between polysemy and copredication more generally. Many classic examples of copredication contain subject terms that are plausibly polysemous.
Ofra Magidor
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The Problems of Polysemy

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Abstract A polysemous word has multiple, related senses; for example ‘lamb’ meaning the animal and the meat, ‘door’ meaning the aperture and the physical entity blocking the aperture, and so on. Polysemy is widespread throughout natural language—indeed for any term, if it is not already polysemous, it seems we can imagine it becoming so.
Borg, Emma
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Polysemy and Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass
Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polysemy plays a crucial role: (i) Chomsky's argument ...
Michelle Liu
exaly   +3 more sources

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