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There should be a way of saying that there is one polysemous lexeme with limitations on how you can use its singular.
It might be unclear, in any given case, whether a word should be regarded as polysemous or monosemous.
They may, however, be put off by homographs and polysemous words, such as the various uses of bank and crane.
A word like walk is polysemous, while a word like bank is homonymous between at least bank for money and bank of a river.
In the special case of contronyms, the polysemous terms contain two opposite meanings.
He highlights the polysemous nature of economic and social change in Europe.
The earth also trembled at Wajdi Mouawad's first theatre season, under the banner of the polysemous phrase We are at war.
In pictures, texts and drawings, Ulrich Meister subjects unlikely objects to an investigation of their polysemous presence.
Added to this is often a literary element that confers upon his works an amplified narrative flavor as well as a polysemous experience.
Pasternak's work is also difficult because his mind-set is unpredictably complex, evocatively associative, synaesthetic and polysemous.
It is however true that human translators are not always confronted with multiple translation candidates in cases of polysemous SL items.
It is argued that this is an instance of children's developmental and educational problems with polysemous vocabulary, a relatively neglected area of linguistic development.
Welles was at the time in the grip of the semioticians: everything was polyvalent, polysemous, above all polysyllabic.
Words, almost all of them polysemous, create enough confusion as regards systems of co-existence.
Peace is a polysemous word that applies just as well to understanding between migrants and the receiving community, to harmony between human beings and their environment, and to relations among peoples.
This experimental Working Session has proven positive and shown that cultural diversity is polysemous, and that these multiple meanings are taking it in all directions beyond the realm of cultural policy.
In order to explore our premises concerning the translation of polysemous items, we first have to look for their occurrences and their translation equivalents in texts, which often is a 1: n relation.
The asabiyah is a polysemous concept that can be understood as a social solidarity with an emphasis on group awareness, cohesion and unity, but which is not necessarily typical of nomads, nor is it based on bloodlines.
The polysemous, multivocal messaging made possible via social media demonstrates the fragmented hyperreality of postmodern political culture.
Because of automorphism of iconicity, it is quite plausible that there are many polysemous words.
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