This thesis addresses the lexical and psycholinguistic properties of copredication. In
particular, it explores its acceptability, frequency, crosslinguistic and electrophysiological …

Most words have multiple meanings, but there are foundationally distinct accounts for this.
Categorical theories posit that humans maintain discrete entries for distinct word meanings …

Most words are ambiguous--ie, they convey distinct meanings in different contexts--and
even the meanings of unambiguous words are context-dependent. Both phenomena …

The goal of the present study was to investigate the interaction between different senses of
polysemous nouns (metonymies and metaphors) and different meanings of homonyms …

This study examines speakers' intuitions about novel word senses created through regular
polysemy patterns. We investigate the effect of scalar regularity and lexical figure (metaphor …

How are concepts related to fundamental human experiences organized within the human
mind? Our insights are drawn from a semantic network created using the Cross-Linguistic …

We studied mental representations of literal, metonymically different, and metaphorical
senses in Russian adjectives. Previous studies suggested that in polysemous words …

Words with complex semantic types such as book are characterised by a multiplicity of
interpretations that are not mutually exclusive (eg, as a physical object and/or informational …

Цель исследования—мультидисциплинарное изучение феномена полисемии
(многозначности) языковых единиц с помощью теоретических, экспериментальных и …

Linguists have often observed that the sense extensions in polysemous words follow
patterns. Yet, these patterns have rarely been quantified, and it is unknown whether …