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Conclusion

This in courserwork addresses the general issue of the role of meaning in the explanation of morphosyntactic linguistic patterns. It does so via a detailed examination of a particular pattern, directly observable and very robustly attested both within single languages and across languages. The pattern is very easy to describe in intuitive terms: in some cases, sentences that express the content of an English copular sentence with a predicative adjective, have the form of possessive sentences, or otherwise feature possessive morphology, in a way that is not generally found with non-verbal predication. This is illustrated by the contrasting the English and Spanish sentences in

The problem of polysemy is the problem of interrelation and interdependence of the various meanings of the same word.
Polysemy viewed diachronically is a historical change in the semantic structure of the word resulting in disappearance of some meanings (or) and in new meanings being added to the ones already existing and also in the rearrangement of these meanings in its semantic structure.
Polysemy viewed synchronically is understood as coexistence of the various meanings of the same word at a certain historical period and the arrangement of these meanings in the semantic structure of the word.
The concepts of central and marginal meanings may be interpreted in terms of their relative frequency in speech. The meaning having the highest frequency is usually the one representative of the semantic structure of the word, i.e. synchronically its central meaning.
As the semantic structure is never static the relationship between the diachronic and synchronic evaluation of the individual meanings of the same word may be different in different periods of the historical development of language.
The semantic structure of polysemantic words is not homogeneous as far as the status of individual meanings is concerned. Some meaning (or meanings) is representative of the word in isolation, others are perceived only in certain contexts.
The whole of the semantic structure of correlated polysemantic words of different languages can never be identical. Words are felt as correlated if their basic meanings coincide.