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  1. Aug 13, 2024 · Polysemy is a phenomenon involving single lexical items with multiple related senses. Much theorizing about it has focused on developing linguistic accounts that are responsive to various compositional and representational challenges in semantics and psychology.

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  3. Nov 4, 2020 · Systematic (or regular) polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon in which a noun has several distinct but related meanings whereby the same relation holds between the meanings for a series of nouns.

  4. Mar 15, 2018 · Systematic (or regular) polysemy is characterized as the phen omenon that a noun has several distinct but related meanings whereby the same relation holds between the m eanings for a series of...

    • Johannes Dölling
  5. Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form is associated with a single meaning, and homonymy, where a single word form is associated with two or several unrelated meanings.

  6. In this type of ambiguity, the various meanings of a lexical item are distinct, yet logically and sometimes systematically related. For this reason, it is often referred to as polysemy or systematic polysemy.

    • Fleur Mougin, Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun
    • 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.03.008
    • 2009
    • 2009/06
  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PolysemyPolysemy - Wikipedia

    A polyseme is a word or phrase with different, but related, senses. Since the test for polysemy is the vague concept of the relatedness, judgments of polysemy can be difficult to make.

  8. Mar 1, 2024 · Polysemy is the type of lexical ambiguity where a word has multiple distinct but related interpretations.

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