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Define polysemy as a linguistic phenomenon. Illustrate your answer with your own examples. What are the two levels of analysis in investigating the semantic structure of a word? What types of semantic components can be distinguished within the meaning of a word?
This document contains an English language exercise with answers related to semantic relationships. It includes identifying synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, hyponyms, polysemy, metonymy, idioms, metaphors and slang.
Topics: Polysemy, homonymy, homophony. Prototypes, metaphor, metonymy. Exercise 1: Decide whether the formally identical words in the following sentences should be treated as instances of homonymy or polysemy. Justify your answer. They reached the foot of the mountain. The wind blew hard. He blew all his money on gambling.
Polysemy exercise. Stds will be able to understand multiple meanings of a word in a sentence.
A collection of downloadable worksheets, exercises and activities to teach Polysemic words, shared by English language teachers.
20 maj 2021 · A Generative Theory of Polysemy In this section we will discuss the theory of polysemy developed by Pustejovsky (e.g., Pustejovsky (1993), Pustejovsky (1995), Pustejovsky & Bouillon (1995)). This theory intends to describe the systematic aspects of polysemy patterns, using generative rules.
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