Exempel på polysemy

• 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.

• The discussion of polysemy and alternations in section 6 addresses this issue further.

• She has published papers on polysemy and definition style and has a particular interest in grammar.

• Cognitive linguists in particular have been interested in the polysemy of prepositions and the relations between their various senses.

• Handling graded phenomena, fine-grained issues of polysemy, change and context-dependency, especially at the levels of semantics and pragmatics, are examples of problematic issues.

• Since over-verbs are stored in memory as distinct from the preposition over, it is no wonder that the prefix over- develops its own polysemy structure.

• The answers to questions (c) and (d) are also closely related and depend on some kind of understanding of the important issue of polysemy.

• The answer, it seems, would have to explicitly recognize that this particular kind of polysemy is different from other kinds.

• This kind of polysemy is discussed in section 6.

• Philips introduces the concept of "ideological polysemy" to capture the way multiple levels of ideology may be implicated in a single utterance.

• In polysemy and hypernymy categories, some key differences were noted that were not apparent in the earlier study.