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One group of polysemes are those in which a word meaning an activity, perhaps derived from a verb, acquires the meanings of those engaged in the activity, or perhaps the results of the activity, or the time or place in which the activity occurs or has occurred. Sometimes only one of those meanings is
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is helpful in determining polysemy but not the only solution; as words become lost in etymology, what once was a useful distinction of meaning may no longer be so. Some seemingly unrelated words share a common historical origin, however, so etymology is not an infallible test for polysemy, and
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definition stipulates three elements: (i) the various senses of a polysemous word have a central origin, (ii) the links between these senses form a network, and (iii) understanding the 'inner' one contributes to understanding of the 'outer' one.
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meanings. But originally they were polysemous, since Italian borrowed the word from a Germanic language. The Proto-Germanic cognate for "bank" is *bankiz. A river bank is typically visually bench-like in its
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yet seem related, then it is probable that they are polysemous. This test again depends on speakers' judgments about relatedness, which means that it is not infallible, but merely a helpful conceptual aid.
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dictionary writers also often defer to speakers' intuitions to judge polysemy in cases where it contradicts etymology. English has many polysemous words. For example, the verb "to get" can mean "procure" (
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In non-linear polysemy, the original sense of a word is used figuratively to provide a different way of looking at the new subject. Alan Cruse identifies three types of non-linear polysemy:
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Kawamoto AH, Farrar WT, Kello CT (1994). "When two meanings are better than one: Modeling the ambiguity advantage using a recurrent distributed network".
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in the 14th century. Psycholinguistic experiments have shown that homonyms and polysemes are represented differently within people's mental
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autohyperonymy or autosuperordination, where the basic sense leads to a wider sense (from "(female) cow" to "cow (of either sex)")
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Joordens S, Besner D (1994). "When banking on meaning is not (yet) money in the bank: Explorations in connectionist modeling".
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autoholonymy, where the basic sense leads to a larger sense (from "leg (thigh and calf)" to "leg (thigh, calf, knee and foot)")
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Disambiguating the ambiguity advantage effect in word recognition: An advantage for polysemous but not homonymous words
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autohyponymy, where the basic sense leads to a specialised sense (from "drinking (anything)" to "drinking (alcohol)")
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Jastrzembski JE (1981). "Multiple meanings, number of related meanings, frequency of occurrence, and the lexicon".
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The relatedness-of-meaning effect for ambiguous words in lexical-decision tasks: When does relatedness matter?
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automeronymy, where the basic sense leads to a subpart sense (from "door (whole structure)" to "door (panel)")
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meaning "verification" are considered homonyms, while they originated as a single word derived from
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In linear or vertical polysemy, one sense of a word is a subset of the other. These are examples of
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This example shows the specific polysemy where the same word is used at different levels of a
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Rubenstein H, Garfield L, Millikan (1970). "Homographic entries in the internal lexicon".
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to deposit money or have an account in a bank (e.g. "I bank at the local credit union")
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Predictable Meaning Shift: Some Linguistic Properties of Lexical Implication Rules
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other construals (for example, from "month (of the year)" to "month (30 days)")
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition)
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Jennifer Rodd; M Gareth Gaskell & William Marslen-Wilson (2004).
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Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
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can separate a polysemous word into separate homonyms. For example,
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the physical building where a financial institution offers services
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Paper has been my ruin: Conceptual relations of polysemous senses
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Rodd, Jennifer; Gaskell, Gareth; Marslen-Wilson, William (2002).
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A polyseme is a word or phrase with different, but related,
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a supply of something held in reserve: such as "banking"
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There are several tests for polysemy, but one of them is
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as it derives from the theme of security initiated by 1.
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is a native English word. Today they can be considered
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Capacity for a sign to have multiple related meanings
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Adult males of the human species (i.e., man vs. boy)
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Index

Polyseme
Polysomy
Polysemia (moth)


statuette
/pəˈlɪsɪmi/
/ˈpɒlɪˌsmi/
Ancient Greek
sign
symbol
morpheme
word
phrase
word senses
monosemy
homonymy
homophony
accidental
bear
bear
Dictionary writers
headword
Oxford English Dictionary
English
run
put
set
senses
etymology

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