Polysemy: contributions to the grammatical, lexicogenic and lexicographic study of the phenomenon
Polysemy is one of the major problems encountered by semanticists, who sometimes prefer to refer to it as “ambiguity”. All the same the question seems simple: everyone knows that a word may well have several senses. However such apparent simplicity is misleading. Lexicographers know how difficult i...
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Lexis
2016
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | Polysemy is one of the major problems encountered by semanticists, who sometimes prefer to refer to it as “ambiguity”. All the same the question seems simple: everyone knows that a word may well have several senses. However such apparent simplicity is misleading. Lexicographers know how difficult it is to determine the number of senses of a word, to define them, to say where one ends and another begins. In actual fact, to be in a position to answer these questions requires prior agreement as... |
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