Antonymy Words are antonyms of one another when they have opposite meanings (again, at least in some contexts). Big and small, Come and go, Up and down. Polysemy – A word is polysemous when it has two ...

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2018. Disentangling A Versatile Prefix: The Nature And Development Of A Polysemous Marker In Arawak Languages. International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 84, Issue. 1 ...

“The word nayánayá from Bisaya, a language of central Philippines, is polysemous [has multiple meanings],” she says. “Its first meaning is to entertain, to serve others – as in serving foo ...

Set in a dictatorial state where everyone is under surveillance, the new novel from Ali Smith is a riot of puns, neologisms ...

Gliff’ is a word which can mean ‘a short moment’, ‘a wallop’, and ‘a post-ejaculatory sex act’; to ‘dispel snow’, ‘to ...

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2018. Disentangling A Versatile Prefix: The Nature And Development Of A Polysemous Marker In Arawak Languages. International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 84, Issue. 1 ...

Island, no matter how polysemous it may be in the poem, is often used as a metaphor to refer to distancing yourself from ...