Homonymy in English The learning objectives: after you have studied the lecture you should be able to speak on the following: 1. Homonyms‚ its etymology‚ definition. 2. Classification of homonyms. 3. Sources of homonyms. 4. Relationship among polysemy‚ homonymy and synonymy. Seminar on Homonymy and Polysemy: Consider your answer to the following: 1) Antrushina G.B. and others “English lexicology”‚ M.‚ 1999. Pp. 166-182. Do exercises 1‚ 2‚ (8 sent)‚ 4‚ 5‚ 7‚ (6 sent)‚ 8 p
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Polysemy and homonymy --the language phenomenon I’m interested in linguistic study The word polysemy is defined as “having or characterized by many meanings; the existence of several meanings for a single word or phrase.” Thus‚ the coexistence of several meanings in one‚ which is quite common‚ is found in polysemy. Some words develop an entire gamut of meanings‚ each new meaning forming another point of departure. Several dictionaries treat multiple meanings of one word either as polysemy
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HOMONYMY AND POLYSEMY Semantics is the scientific study of meaning in language and deals with a lot of complex subjects‚ such as utterances and sentences‚ reference‚ sense relation or lexical ambiguity. Semantics often appears in other disciplines‚ for example in philosophy‚ anthropology‚ psychology and communication theory and it is closely connected with pragmatics. As already mentioned the study of meaning is the main point in semantics. It is well known that meaning is an ordinary English word
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HOMONYMY - POLOSEMY A. HOMONYMY I. Definition - Homonymy is a relation in which various words have the same (sound and written) form but have different meanings. II. Classification 1. Homonyms (full/absolute homonyms) - Two or more words identical in sound and spelling but different in meaning‚ distribution and origin are called homonyms - We use the term homonyms when one form (written or spoken) has two or more unrelated meaning‚ as these examples: Bank
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University Homonymy in English and Arabic: A Contrastive Study By: Lecturer Ahmed Mohammed Ali Abdul Ameer (ME in Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Department of English College of Education (Safi yil Deen Al-Hilli) University of Babylon Asst. Lecturer Areej As’ad Ja’far Altaie (MA in English Language and Linguistics) Department of English College of Education (Safi yil Deen Al-Hilli) University of Babylon 2010 2 Introduction In fact‚ although homonymy is defined
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of homonyms 1.4 Synchronically approach in studying homonyms CHAPTER II. 2.1 ETYMOLOGICAL AND SEMANTIC CRITERIA IN POLYSEMY AND HOMONYMY 2.2 Modern methods of investigating homonyms 2.3 The two main sources of homonymy are: 2.4 Polysemy and Homonymy: Etymological and Semantic Criteria 2.5 Typological analysis of homonymy and polysemy in three languages III. CONCLUSION IV. THE LIST OF USED LITERATURE
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Determination of Homonymy 2. Classification of Homonyms A. The standard way of classification (given by I.V. Arnold) a) Homonyms proper b) Homophones c) Homographs B. Classification given by A.I. Smirnitsky a) Full homonyms b) Partial homonyms C. Other aspects of classification 3. Sources of Homonymy 4. Problems of Homonymy a) Distinguishing homonymy from polysemy b) Different meanings of the same homonym in terms of distribution c) Difference between patterned and non-patterned homonymy Conclusion
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the lexical meanings of lexical items are interrelated‚ and its principal goal is to build a model for the structure of the lexicon by categorizing the types of relationships between words. The relationships include such broad classes as hyponymy‚ homonymy‚ polysemy‚ synonymy‚ antonymy as well as metonymy. HYPONYMY Hyponymy involves the logical relationship of entailment; sense of one word is included in (hypo ’under’) the sense of the other. It also involves the notion of class inclusion. For instance
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characteristics. Lexicology 1. Classifications of phraseological units. 2. Etymological analysis of the English vocabulary. The main sources of borrowings. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Classification of borrowings. Reasons for borrowing. Homonymy. Sources of homonymy. Classifications of homonyms. Synonyms. Classifications of them. Sources of synonymy. Antonyms in Modern English. Classifications of
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