Polysemy §

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• Lexical Relation: Polysemy is a type of lexical relation where a single word form is associated with multiple related meanings.
• Homograph: Homographs are words that share the same spelling but have different meanings, which can be related (polysemy) or unrelated (homonymy).
• Metaphor: Metaphors can contribute to the development of polysemy by extending the meaning of words.
• Lexical Semantics: Lexical semantics, the study of word meanings, is concerned with understanding and representing polysemy.
• Semantic Ambiguity: Polysemy is a form of semantic ambiguity where a word or phrase has multiple related meanings.
• Lexicography: Lexicographers study and document polysemy when compiling dictionaries and defining word meanings.
• Equivocity: Polysemy, where a word has multiple related meanings, is a form of equivocity.
• Linguistics: Polysemy is a linguistic phenomenon studied in various subfields of linguistics.
• Lexical Ambiguity: Polysemy is a form of lexical ambiguity where a single word has multiple meanings.
• Semantics: Polysemy is a semantic phenomenon related to the study of meaning in language.
• Word Sense Disambiguation: Word sense disambiguation is the task of computationally determining the intended meaning of a polysemous word in context.
• Multiple Meanings: Polysemy refers to a word or phrase having multiple meanings.
• Computational Linguistics: Computational linguistics develops methods for computationally processing and understanding polysemous words.
• Univocity: Polysemy, where a word has multiple related meanings, is in contrast with the principle of univocity.
• Ambiguity: Polysemy is a type of ambiguity where a word or phrase has multiple related meanings.
• Natural Language Processing: Handling polysemy is an important challenge in natural language processing tasks.
• Multiple Interpretations: Words or phrases with multiple meanings can lead to multiple interpretations.
• Metonymy: Metonymy is a semantic process that can lead to polysemy by associating a word with a related concept.
• Pragmatics: Pragmatics, the study of language in context, can help resolve polysemous meanings.
• Structural Ambiguity: While polysemy is a lexical ambiguity, structural ambiguity refers to ambiguity arising from the syntactic structure of a sentence.
• Homonymy: Homonymy is a type of ambiguity where a word has multiple unrelated meanings, while polysemy refers to related meanings.
• Polyseme: A polyseme is a word or phrase that exhibits polysemy, having multiple related meanings.