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POLYSEMY AND HOMONYMY

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  • Find one example of homonymy
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  • What is homonymy?
    A situation where different words happen accidentally to have same forms
  • Find one example of polysemy
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  • What is polysemy?
    A phenomenon where a single word has two or more related meanings
  • Polysemy or homonymy? Bow (a decorative knot) and Bow (a weapon for shooting arrows)
    Homonymy. Completely unrelated
  • ..............occurs when a single word has more than one meaning, which makes a sentence open to different interpretations.
    Lexical ambiguity
  • Polysemy or homonymy? Match (contest between two sides) and Match (stick for making fire)
    Homonymy. Completely unrelated
  • .........................occurs when the structure of a sentence allows more than one interpretation, even though the words are the same.
    Grammatical Ambiguity
  • How many types of homonymy? What are they?
    Homophones, Homographs, and perfect homonyms
  • Is this polysemy or homonymy? Bridge (a structure crossing a river) and Bridge (a connection between two things)
    Polysemy. Both come from Old English "brycg", meaning “a structure that connects
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