homonymy

Examples

• All

• The loss of the final -t of "est" would, of course, give rise to a troublesome homonymy that needed to be resolved.

  Academic text (1994)

• Only French has avoided the problem, partly because the reflexes of es and est were not completely homonymous and, perhaps even more importantly, because French soon came to require the regular use of subject pronouns, thus avoiding a potentially troublesome homonymy.

  Academic text (1994)

• Are there languages which tend to resist homonymy when it arises, even if the possibility?

  Academic text (1995)

• Conceivably, this situation of (near-) homonymy may have played a role in the failure of all three items to survive into the modern language.

  Academic text (1995)

• The origins of ambiguity identified in this study for this type include polysemy, the different related senses of a single meaning, and homonymy, literally different meanings.

  Academic text (2014)

• When the embarrassing homonymy between the spoken forms of es and est posed a serious threat to intelligibility, eres survived to the detriment of es.

  Academic text (1994)

• It has been suggested that the homonymy between the roots of punar and punir, and their near homonymy with punir, may have substantially contributed to the demise of all three verbs.

  Academic text (1995)

• The confusion between the words homonymy and polysemy often leads to misunderstandings among linguists.

• In learning English, understanding homonymy is crucial, especially when words like 'close' can mean near or to shut.

How Ambiguous

homonymy

9.9

lexical ambiguity

• Specialized

8.4

polysemy

• Specialized

8.3

clarity

30 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology