Unbalanced, Idle, Canonical and Particular: Polysemous Adjectives in English Dictionaries
This study seeks to compare how various English dictionaries distinguish multiple meanings, focusing on a particular class of words identifiable in dictionary classification, namely, polysemous adjectives. The polysemy displayed by adjectives tends to be of a heavily context-dependent type. A great...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2008-07-01
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| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/771 |