Polysemy and Homonymy: A Conceptual Labyrinth
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Multifunctionality of a language generates multisemanticity of words. If different senses of word are systematically related, then how these senses are derived from each other and how they should be organised to reflect their regularity in sense denotation? Before this question is addressed, in this paper an attempt is made to identify salient traits of distinctions between the polysemous and the homonymous words in a language, which, if addressed properly, will lead towards formation of methods to overcome the problems of word sense disambiguation.
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