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Homonymy and Polysemy

Homonymy and Polysemy . The main points . Definition History. Some examples. Distinguish between the two concepts. . Homonymy . What does it mean? The history of the word Some examples . The meaning of Homonymy .

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Homonymy and Polysemy

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  1. Homonymy and Polysemy

  2. The main points • Definition • History. • Some examples. • Distinguish between the two concepts.

  3. Homonymy • What does it mean? • The history of the word • Some examples

  4. The meaning of Homonymy • It is a morphological process where a word has two or more different meaning. In other words, it used to refer to lexemes that share the same pronunciation and the same spelling, but they have different meaning.

  5. The history of the word • This word, "homonym", comes from Latin borrowing of Greek which is "homonymous" (ὁμώνυμος). This word means having the same name "homos" same+ "onyma" name. But it is also means that two or more different ideas sharing the same name.

  6. Homonymy examples - same pronunciation - same spelling - different meaning

  7. As in: • Ball /bɔːl/ “noun”

  8. 2. kind /kʌɪnd/ “noun”, “adj”.

  9. Polysemy • What does it mean? • The history of the word • Some examples

  10. The meaning of polysemy It is a morphological process which occurs when a word has two or more related meanings .If a word has two senses of the word which meanings are related, the word is judge to be polysemous. In another word, a single lexeme has two or more similar meanings.

  11. The history of the word The word polysemy comes from Greek roots, poly that’s mean "many" and seme that’s mean "meaning". Polysemy is a word which has many similar meanings. There are many English words with related meanings, but it might not be used very much.

  12. Some examples 1. Wood: /wʊd/ “noun”

  13. 2. Window: /ˈwɪndəʊ/ “noun”

  14. 3. Band : /band/ “noun”

  15. Differentiations 1. Homonymy As in the word pen: /pɛn/, “noun”

  16. Homophone and homograph are morphological processes which will be mentioned here in the case of comparing between them and homonymy.

  17. Homophone - same pronunciation • - different spelling - different meaning

  18. Such as: The words • Two / tuː/ • To /tuː/ Too /tuː/ 2

  19. Also, the words: • Sea /siː/ “noun” • See /siː/ “verb”

  20. Homograph - different pronunciation - same spelling - different meaning

  21. Like the word dove: • The past tens of dive. /dəʊv/ “verb” • A kind of birds. /dʌv/ “noun”

  22. Also, the word Wind: • Air that is moving /wɪnd/ “noun” • To turn sth /wʌɪnd/ “verb”

  23. 2. Polysemy As in the word: Crawl: /krɔːl/, “verb” , “noun”

  24. 3. Looking at the etymology of the word "its historical origin" is often useful for distinguishing between the two concepts. Also analyzing the commonality of the different possible meaning of the word is another way that will be useful in such issue.

  25. 4. In the dictionary for the polysemous item there is one single dictionary entry. But, for the homonymous lexeme there are two or more separate entries.

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