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单词 polysemy
释义
polysemy
noun[U]
uk
/pəˈlɪs.ɪ.mi/us
/ˈpɑː.lɪ.siː.mi/
thefactof having more than onemeaning:
一词多义
Polysemyoccurswhen a wordformcarriesmore than onemeaning.当一个词带有一个以上的意义时，就会出现多义性。
Englishhas a verylargestockof wordforms, soitslexiconisrelativelyfreeof polysemycomparedwith manylanguages.英语有着非常丰富的词汇形式，因此与许多语言相比，英语词汇中的多义现象相对较少。
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  • Polysemy isexemplifiedby words like "run" and "set" each of which has a verylargenumberofsenses, many of whichseemunrelated.
  • Numerous publicationsunderlinethe polysemy of 'entrepreneurship'.
  • Itseemsthat polysemy is theruleratherthan theexception.
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(Definition ofpolysemyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpolysemy

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The diachronic part gave an analysis of how thepolysemyin get arose in terms of various reanalyses and the mechanisms driving them.
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One can take comfort from the knowledge that the majority of lexical items do not exhibit the highpolysemyof the verbs discussed here.
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Figure 1 also summarizes the evolution proposed in this paper and the emergence ofpolysemyin get, or its increased syntacticization.
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Some cases of this involve regularpolysemy, where words systematically have multiple senses.
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Thispolysemyhas been attributed to semantic retention, whereby both old (lexical) and new (grammaticalized) meanings are recovered in certain contexts.
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The discussion ofpolysemyand alternations in section 6 addresses this issue further.
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She has published papers onpolysemyand definition style and has a particular interest in grammar.
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Cognitive linguists in particular have been interested in thepolysemyof prepositions and the relations between their various senses.
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Handling graded phenomena, fine-grained issues ofpolysemy, change and context-dependency, especially at the levels of semantics and pragmatics, are examples of problematic issues.
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Since over-verbs are stored in memory as distinct from the preposition over, it is no wonder that the prefix over- develops its ownpolysemystructure.
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The answers to questions (c) and (d) are also closely related and depend on some kind of understanding of the important issue ofpolysemy.
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The answer, it seems, would have to explicitly recognize that this particular kind ofpolysemyis different from other kinds.
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This kind ofpolysemyis discussed in section 6.
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Philips introduces the concept of "ideologicalpolysemy" to capture the way multiple levels of ideology may be implicated in a single utterance.
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Inpolysemyand hypernymy categories, some key differences were noted that were not apparent in the earlier study.
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