My presentation

Polysemy and homonymy as linguistic phenomena

Group:2023

Name:xolmuminova Moxira

Outline:

• What is polysemy?
• The history of polysemy.
• The meaning of homonymy.
• Homophones,homographs,paronyms.
• Conclusion.

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 .

The history of polysemy

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.

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.

The history of homonymy

• 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.

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