Cognitive Topology and Lexical Networks1
Claudia Brugman and George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley
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This chapter presents a study of a polysemous lexical item—the English word “over”—paying specific attention to the character of the relations among its senses. Polysemy is a subtype of lexical ambiguity, contrasting with homonymy, wherein a single lexical form is associated with more than one meaning, and those meanings are unrelated. In the case of polysemy, it is taken that one word has senses which are related. The distinction is important for the resolution of lexical ambiguity—the way semantic information is stored in a lexical entry may differ depending on whether that lexical entry is taken ...
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