Towards a Theory of Polysemy
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There are two orders of facts about polysemy: a satisfactory theory must account in a natural way for both. The first concerns differences in the semantic content of the interpretations of a word in different contexts. It is this aspect of polysemy which has been the most actively researched, with the aim of discovering regularity and predictability. Noteworthy recent proposals concerning polysemy have emerged from two main sources: firstly, from cognitive linguists such as Lakoff and Taylor; secondly, from computational linguists, most notably Pustejovsky.
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