The paper considers the peculiarities of origin and functioning lexical polysemy in different languages, particular Ukrainian, German English. author examines discourse Ukrainian scholars terms study polysemic words causes, relationship between meanings words, distinction phenomena homonymy, linguistic functions units. opinion that languages is not an accidental phenomenon was justified. It emp...

This chapter proposes a conception of lexical meaning as use-potential, in contrast to prevailing atomistic and reificational views. The issues are illustrated on the example of spatial expressions, pre-eminently prepositions. It is argued that the dichotomy between polysemy and semantic generality is a false one, with expressions occupying points on a continuum from full homonymy to full monos...

The importance of describing regular polysemy in a lexicon has often been outlined, especially in the field of natural language processing (for a good overview of this issue, see (Ravin and Leacock, 2000)). Unfortunately, no existing broad-coverage semantic lexicon has been built following this relatively recent advice. And since producing a broad coverage semantic lexicon is a very time-consum...

This paper gives an overview of work on a computational approach to representing lexically governed polysemy. The framework is illustrated with an account of the interpretation of compound nouns and with some examples of extended usages of words. I discuss how generative devices can be controlled to avoid an explosion in interpretations a din the number

This tendency reflects egocentric distance. For example, the examples in (8) show the cognitive process of semantic extension from mouth as ‘facial organ’ (i.e. something concrete) to mouth as ‘talkativeness’ (i.e. something abstract). In sum, polysemy can be significant evidence which shows that experientialist epistemology really works in language users’ mind. In other words, the developing w...

Polysemy is a bottleneck for the demanding needs of semantic data management. We suggest the importance of a well-founded conceptual analysis for understanding some systematic structures underlying polysemy in the medical lexicon. We present some cases studies, which exploit the methods (ontological integration and general theories) and tools (description logics and ontology libraries) of the O...