POLYSEMOUS WORDS

Polysemous words

Polysemous words

Introduction

Changes in significance are as widespread as alterations in form. Like the last cited they can be internally or externally motivated. The matching to the paradigm in morphology is, in semantics, the phrase area in which phrases and their meanings stand in a mesh of relationships.

Polysemous words

These are phrases which have a rudimentary and a associated figurative significance, for demonstration foot and foot of the mountain. Characteristic for the figurative significance is that it happens in a saying in which its metaphorical use is clear. But with time the lesser use may happen without any ...