Definitions
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- noun semantics The ability of
words ,signs andsymbols to havemultiple meanings .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
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Examples
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And I'm not even talking about polysemy, which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves.
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And I'm not even talking about polysemy, which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves.
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And I'm not even talking about polysemy, which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves.
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There's indeed some ambiguity hesitate to call it "polysemy" since it seems to be a historical development around "hair cloth/shirt", which I came across only days ago reading up on Thomas More.
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Topics range from particular language and construction-specific problems such as the "polysemy" of modal verbs in relation to context-sensitive constructions, to general technical analyses and proposals, including proposals for formalizing contextual features in constructional representations.
Uz-Translations : Linguistics : Contexts and Constructions (Constructional Approaches to Language) 2010
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Price: 3,500,000 Euro ckolderup oh no, semantic polysemy! we've never had to deal with that before! csessums patched with rat stubble from a barber's dust pan cwaxler civil case Tiffany brought against eBay drothschild iT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York jessamyn Personally, I'm after the uncontrolled growth of pubic hair.
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I wonder how and why human languages seem to be so completely content with the wild and multifarious polysemy and ambiguity that afflicts them.
Clarity GamesWithWords 2010
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I wonder how and why human languages seem to be so completely content with the wild and multifarious polysemy and ambiguity that afflicts them.
Archive 2010-05-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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Here's my 2001 MA thesis on polysemy in advertising:
My MA thesis Wordled... Jonathan 2008
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This is the polysemy and metonymy among the terms Afghan, Pashtun (and its primary variant Pakhtun, and permutations of vowels in both constructs), and Pathan.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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