Polysemy is the type of lexical ambiguity where a word has multiple distinct but related
interpretations. In the past decade, it has been the subject of a great many studies across …

Most theories of concepts take concepts to be structured bodies of information used in
categorization and inference. This paper argues for a version of atomism, on which concepts …

ABSTRACT 'Expatriate'is an unstable and contested term, as emphatically embraced by
some, as rejected by others. The category 'migrant', on the other hand, can have all the …

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

There is an ongoing debate about the meaning of lexical words, ie, words that contribute
with content to the meaning of sentences. This debate has coincided with a renewal in the …

Word learning is typically studied as a problem in which children need to learn a single
meaning for a new word. And by most theories, children's learning is itself guided by the …

Many word forms in natural language are polysemous, but only some of them allow for co-
predication, that is, they allow for simultaneous predications selecting for two different …

Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated
with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form …

Polysemous concepts with multiple related meanings pervade natural languages, yet some
philosophers argue that we should eliminate them to avoid miscommunication and pointless …

I suppose that everyone who starts theorizing about language and its use is struck early by
the need for some sort of distinction between what is “semantic” and what is “pragmatic”; …