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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"homonymy"”.
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Functionalism, Lexical Contrast And Sound Change
… that sound change is blocked when it leads to homonymy (Chapter 3), and by identifying the factors that predict phonological development in children (Chapter 4). While in the first part of the dissertation I argue that lexical change over time can be modeled without reference to functional …
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An analysis of the semantic field of the German particles "Überhaupt" and "Eigentlich"
… still is to a certain extent) the problem of homonymy; in other words particles, more than other words, have homonyms with different functions, a fact which complicated a proper classification. Secondly, particles were supposed to be negligeable entities because of their lack of any proper …
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An Organizational Approach to the Polysemy Problem in WordNet
… can be grouped into five classes. One of them is homonymy that refers to the cases, where the meanings of a term are unrelated, and three of the classes refer to the polysemy cases, where the meanings of a term are related. These three classes are specialization polysemy, metonymy, and metaphoric …
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An informatics approach to prioritizing risk assessment for chemicals and chemical combinations based on near-field exposure from consumer products
… different names for the same chemical) and homonymy (i.e., the same name for different chemicals) are rampant. The PubChem Compound database, and to a lesser extent the Universal Medical Language System, are used to map chemicals to unique identifiers. Third, lists of toxicologically …
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Ecology, Ecophysiology and Morpho-colorimetric analysis of wild grapevines populations of Sardinia and relationships with some autochthonous cultivars
… investigate the various groups of synonymy and homonymy previously proposed on the basis of the Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) marker providing high percentage values of correct identification of each group and showing a certain correspondence to the phenotypic seed characters- This results …
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Modelling Metaphorical Extension
… or metonymy, or is disconnected in the case of homonymy. WordNet senses have preexisting links to grounded information that captures their meaning, including images and textual examples. ChainNet identifies which of these senses are metaphorical, and therefore makes it possible to use this …
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Aristotle on the concept of life
<p>This dissertation addresses an interpretive problem in Aristotle’s ontology of life. Living things are the central focus of Aristotle’s ontology: they are “substances most of all”. Yet Aristotle also claims that “life” cannot be univocally defined: it is a homonymous term. One reason “life” does …
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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
Cognitive linguistics has opened new avenues for Biblical studies in the last several decades. In particular, prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized …
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La representación de la variación contextual mediante definiciones terminológicas flexible
… as opposed to lexical ambiguity (polysemy and homonymy). Contextual variation is the phenomenon that occurs when a concept does not always activate the same traits in use events and the relevance of these traits varies. For its part, lexical ambiguity is the phenomenon that occurs when a …