Polysemy, understood as instances of a single linguistic expression having multiple related
senses, is not a homogenous phenomenon. There are regular (apparently, rule‐based) …

Contrary to traditional research into polysemy and ambiguity, we argue that polysemy is
neither just a phenomenon of the dictionary, nor a purely cognitive phenomenon, but that its …

A large number of word forms in natural language are polysemous, that is, associated with
several related senses (eg, line, run, tight, etc.). While such polysemy appears to cause little …

This thesis investigates the phenomenon of polysemy: a single lexical form with two or
multiple related senses (eg catch the rabbit/order the rabbit; lose a wallet/lose a relative; a …

In this paper, I will try to give a general and comprehensive overview of one of the central
issues in present day research in word meaning (both in semantics and in pragmatics) …

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is' the pivot of semantic
analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in …

The probably most widely accepted definition of polysemy is as the form of ambiguity where
2+ related senses are associated with the same word; consider the meanings of glass in I …

'Radical pragmatics' appears to be an idea the time of whose name has come, but at this
stage it is not clear what people mean the name to denote. For some, it is primarily a …

In this paper I take issue with the standard view of polysemy as the association of a single
word-form with a multitude of distinct meanings. First, I review different approaches to …

Systematic (or regular) polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon in which a noun has
several distinct but related meanings whereby the same relation holds between the …