Polysemy is exemplified by words like "run" and "set" each of which has a very large number of senses, many of which seem unrelated.
Numerous publications underline the polysemy of 'entrepreneurship'.
It seems that polysemy is the rule rather than the exception.
The diachronic part gave an analysis of how the polysemy in get arose in terms of various reanalyses and the mechanisms driving them.
One can take comfort from the knowledge that the majority of lexical items do not exhibit the high polysemy of the verbs discussed here.
Figure 1 also summarizes the evolution proposed in this paper and the emergence of polysemy in get, or its increased syntacticization.
Some cases of this involve regular polysemy, where words systematically have multiple senses.
This polysemy has been attributed to semantic retention, whereby both old (lexical) and new (grammaticalized) meanings are recovered in certain contexts.
