To resolve problems of identity and synonymy of CuZex (MeZanoconion) taeniopus Dyar and Knab 1907, epanastasis Dyar 1922, crybda Dyar 1924, opisthopus Komp 1926 and pseudotaeniopus Galindo and Blanton 1954, a detailed study and comparison of the types and other identified specimens at the U. S. National Museum, and a critical review of the original and subsequent descriptions have been made. As...

We examine a naming game with two agents trying to establish a common vocabulary for n objects. Such efforts lead to the emergence of language that allows for an efficient communication and exhibits some degree of homonymy and synonymy. Although homonymy reduces the communication efficiency, it seems to be a dynamical trap that persists for a long, and perhaps indefinite, time. On the other han...

dimension seep : drip Emphasis enemy : foe Denotational, indirect error : mistake Denotational, fuzzy woods : forest Stylistic, formality pissed : drunk : inebriated Stylistic, force ruin : annihilate Expressed attitude skinny : thin : slim, slender Emotive daddy : dad : father Collocational task : job Selectional pass away : die Subcategorization give : donate 2.3 Dimensions of variation The p...

This paper proposes an algebraic way of sentence valuations in a semiring. Actually, throughout the paper only valuations in the ring of integers with usual addition and multiplication are considered. These valuations take into consideration both words and their positions within the sentences. Two synonymy relations, with respect to a given valuation, are introduced. All sentences that are syno...

This article investigates the extent to which synonymy blocking occurs in the synchronic derivation and, more controversially, whether it is predicted by the Elsewhere Condition (‘EC’). It argues that in current Lexical Morphology, EC accurately predicts the presence of ‘ token blocking’ and the absence of ‘ type blocking’, that apparent token-blocking failure is due either to non-synonymy or t...