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Homonymy and polysemy (lexical semantics explores (mapping of words to…
Homonymy and polysemy
lexical semantics explores
mapping of words to concepts
As tools, lexical relations like
Hyponymy
Hypernymy
Antonymy
Homonymy (to a certain degree)
Greek "Homoios" (identical) and "onoma" (name)
same phonetic form (homophones) or orthographic form(homographs) but different unrelated meaning
Homophony
two words are pronounced identically but they have different written forms
no/know male/mail
homograph
is spelled the same as another word and might be pronounced the same or differently, different meaning
may also be kept apart
by
different word classes (tender)
Homonyms are considered to have distinctive lexemes,(unrelated meanings and different etymologies)
Tail/tale
bear v.(carry) / bear n.(animal)
fluke (both homophone and homograph) a fish and a flatworm
Synonymy
The branch of semantics
that deals with word meaning
Lexical field is the organization of related words
and expressions into
a system
which shows their relationship within one another
angry, sad, depressed,
constitute a lexical field
where all its words refer to negative
emotiona
l states