Unlike homophonous meanings, which are semantically unrelated (e.g., the use of bat to refer to a baseball bat and a flying rodent), polysemous meanings are systematically related to one another (e.g., the use of book, CD, and video to refer to physical objects, as in 'the leather book', or to the intellectual content they contain, as in 'the profound book'). But do perceived relations among po...

We compare three approaches to compositional semantics for words that are modeled (in part) using perceptual classifiers: ”meanings as sets”, ”meanings as transparent functions”, and ”meanings as opaque functions”. The approaches are evaluated according to whether they fulfill a set of desiderata, including dealing with non-intersective compositionality, working with state of the art classifier...

As a literary subgenre, epic poetry is characterized with specific features in terms of language which distinguishes it from other subgenres. The secondary layer meaning the distinguishing factor. In study, order to examine epic, analyzes story "Rostam and Sohrab" frequency variety meanings its relationship type epic. For this purpose, syntactic structure verbs at beginning stanza related are e...

This paper attempts to explore the nature of polysemous verbs using a cognitive linguistic framework from perspective second-language (L2) users: specifically, English as foreign language (EFL) students in Saudi Arabian university context. Drawing on Pulman (1983), this analysis examines multiple senses break, run, and draw prototype theory seeks identify any semantic patterns priority accorded...