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This coarse differentiation might be at the level of homonyms, leaving polysemous words to be associated with an underspecified lexical semantics which is never made fully precise. So what is the homonymy-polysemy distinction and on what grounds is it made? I will show that the distinction is not clear and therefore not a useful basis for deciding what words/senses to include in the lexicon...
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mogul, an emperor, or mogul, a bump on a ski piste), while a word with several related senses is said to be polysemous (e.g. mouth, an organ of the body, the entrance of a cave, etc.) lyons:77. While these definitions are intuitively clear, it has been pointed out many times in the literature on lexical semantics that a clear operational distinction between homonymy and polysemy is lacking...
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