One criterion is etymological information about the lexical item in question. The important researches in the sphere of polysemy were made by Lyon who considers polysemy and homonymy as two types of lexical ambiguity and introduce some criteria for deciding when it is polysemy and when it is homonymy. The most important investment in this century was made by Breмal whose research into polysemy marked a new starting point: he shifted the study of polysemy away from lexicography and etymology and investigated polysemy as the always synchronic pattern of meaning surrounding a word is itself he ever changing result of semantic change. The researches of the multiplicity of meanings began in the eighteenth century and were continued in the nineteenth century. It is in the context that makes the polysemantic word monosemantic. Thus, the word is polysemantic in the language but in actual speech it is always monosemantic, that is, it has only one meaning.

In the word the main and the secondary meanings are distinguished.

We say that the word is polysemantic when it has many meanings. The system of meanings of any polysemantic word develops gradually, mostly over the centuries, as more and more new meanings are either added to old ones, or out some of them. Highly developed polysemy is one of the characteristic features of the English language. Most words of the English language are polysemantic. Polysemy is the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase. Not only different words have different meanings it's also the case that the same word may have a set of meanings. From those times sameness of meaning was not very easy to deal with but there seemed nothing inherently difficult about difference of meaning. Theoretical problems of linguistics form and meaning as relevant to the progressive development of language have attracted the attention of scholars, philosophers and grammarians since the times of Plato and Aristotle. Analysis of sentences which contain polysemantic wordsĪppendix. The development and translation of word polysemyġ.1 The Diachronic aspect of developing word polysemyġ.2 Synchronic aspect of developing word polysemyġ.3 The translation of polysemantic wordsĬhapter 2. The development of word polysemy and translation of word polysemyĬhapter 1. Ministry of education and science of Ukraine

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