Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft), 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper is concerned with the linguistic phenomena of homonymy and polysemy. The term homonymy goes back to the Greek words "homos," meaning "the same," and "onoma," meaning name. A simplified translation of homonymy would be "having the same name." The term polysemy goes back to the Greek language, too. It is composed of the words "polys," meaning "a lot...
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Anglistis...