Polysemy

Polysemy

1. Is a single word form is associated with two or several related senses

2. Aristotle

3. Socrates

4. In general linguistics, Bréal ([1897] 1924) was the first to use the term polysemy (la polysémie) to describe single word forms with several related meanings

   • • Vicente, A. (2017, 27 julio). Polysemy. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.

5. Types of polysemy

   • Regular
     • metonymical relations
   • Inherent
     • contradictory semantic
   • Irregular/Idiosyncratic
     • derived metaphorically

6. Polysemy and Word Meaning

   • (SELs)

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