Unbalanced, Idle, Canonical and Particular: Polysemous Adjectives in English Dictionaries

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jonathan Stammers
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2008-07-01
Series:	Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/771

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