polysemous
Polysemy is exemplified by words like "run" and "set" each of which has a very large number of senses, many of which seem unrelated.
Numerous publications underline the polysemy of 'entrepreneurship'.
It seems that polysemy is the rule rather than the exception.

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Examples of polysemy

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The diachronic part gave an analysis of how the polysemy in get arose in terms of various reanalyses and the mechanisms driving them.
One can take comfort from the knowledge that the majority of lexical items do not exhibit the high polysemy of the verbs discussed here.
Figure 1 also summarizes the evolution proposed in this paper and the emergence of polysemy in get, or its increased syntacticization.
Some cases of this involve regular polysemy, where words systematically have multiple senses.
This polysemy has been attributed to semantic retention, whereby both old (lexical) and new (grammaticalized) meanings are recovered in certain contexts.
The discussion of polysemy and alternations in section 6 addresses this issue further.
She has published papers on polysemy and definition style and has a particular interest in grammar.
Cognitive linguists in particular have been interested in the polysemy of prepositions and the relations between their various senses.
Handling graded phenomena, fine-grained issues of polysemy, change and context-dependency, especially at the levels of semantics and pragmatics, are examples of problematic issues.
Since over-verbs are stored in memory as distinct from the preposition over, it is no wonder that the prefix over- develops its own polysemy structure.
The answers to questions (c) and (d) are also closely related and depend on some kind of understanding of the important issue of polysemy.
The answer, it seems, would have to explicitly recognize that this particular kind of polysemy is different from other kinds.
This kind of polysemy is discussed in section 6.
Philips introduces the concept of "ideological polysemy" to capture the way multiple levels of ideology may be implicated in a single utterance.
In polysemy and hypernymy categories, some key differences were noted that were not apparent in the earlier study.
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