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Solomon, God, and Sharon Rose Walk into a Song: Dialoguing Polysemy in the Song of Songs
Distinguishing terminologically and conceptually between polysemy, polyvalence, and double coding, this essay outlines a framework for treating instances of discursive polysemy in the Hebrew Bible. Particular attention is given to the Song of Songs, the
David M. Dalwood
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Prototypes, polysemy and constructional semantics: The lexicogrammar of the English verb climb
Three themes in the work of Anna Wierzbicka inform the present study and the predecessor work upon which it rests. The first is her long-term engagement with prototypes in semantics.
Goddard, Clifford
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The term "polysemy" refers to the exhibition of multiple meanings, but this description is theoretically unhelpful and far from transparent. Polysemy has attracted attention from a diverse array of language-related academic (sub)disciplines, with modern ...
Coen, Noah Michael
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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Polysemy networks: Mapping between polysemous sense in semiformal lexical ontology
Based on the cognitive framework of language description, this paper aims at representing noun polysemy so that it can beuseful to computational systems.
Isa Mara da Rosa Alves +1 more
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This critical review engages with Michael Devitt’s exposition on language theory and communication as presented in his book Overlooking Conventions. The review is comprised of two main sections.
Gvoždiak, Vít, Fikejzová, Michaela
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Embedding mental files in the world
Cognitive scientific explanations can take either a mechanistic or design perspective. Some recent philosophical works propose to apply the mechanistic perspective to the influential mental file framework. The design perspective, however, remains underexplored.
Zhengxi Jin
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FENOMENUL POLISEMIEI ÎN TERMINOLOGIA ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNTULUI SUPERIOR ÎN LIMBA ROMÂNĂ ȘI ÎN LIMBA ENGLEZĂ
Studiul abordează fenomenul polisemiei în cadrul limbajului specializat al învățamântului superior (ÎS) în limba engleză și în limba română din perspectivă descriptiv-lingvistică.
Victoria SOLOVEI
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Polysémie lexicale et représentation géométrique du sens : l’exemple du verbe entendre
The Electronic Dictionary of Synonyms presents an automated representation of the polysemy of lexical units which is based on a dynamic and continuous model of meaning construction. This paper deals with the tools implemented by this dictionary.
Corinne Ozouf
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The determination of what is said and what is implied
Is what is said determined by syntax, conventional meaning, and select aspects of context? This thesis—semanticity—seems plausible because what is said can diverge from both what the speaker means and what the addressee understands, and because ordinary speakers know what is said when presented with a novel sentence‐context pair.
Victor Tamburini
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