polysemy

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lexical
in
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homonym set
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with
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sound,
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words
different
which
meaning
spelling
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fixed
pineapple
a chunk of language whose constituent parts never change
superordinate
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ansport field
lexical
is the ...
items
of train,
which belong
bus, taxi
to one
etc.topic area. they may be different part
s of speech e.g. cut, saucepan, flour are all part of the .... of cooking. Also
calledcognates
antonym
collocation
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a wordoror
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situation
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the
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heavily
together
two languages but ha
ve different
affixes
word
family
prefixes
meanings
aand
group
suffixes
of words with the same root but different affixes eg lov
e, lovely,
part
grammatical
binomials
trinomials
synonyms
hyponyms
of speech
unloved
collocation
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words
upword
lock,
andthat
stock
class
down;
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depend
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superordinate
interested
ofDick
etc
word'ande.g.
in
Harry
e.g.
+noun/adjective/verb
verb
winter,
+ ingspring, summ
etc
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sentence head the beginning part of a sentence used for organising discourse,
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lexicon
semantic
receptive
productive
connotation
thing
field
ororwords
passive
active
is,...
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meaning
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and
not
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ds things
register
a speech variety usd by a particular group of people, usually sh
aring thedifferences
variety
same occupation.
within asometimes
languagecalled
due tojargon
geographical or social differences.
style
e.g British
the type
English,
of language
Americanused
English
in a particular genre or because of the level
of formality of the discourse. words of Latin origin often tend to be more forma
lretrieval
the ability to 'get' a word from your head. there is receptive o
r productive
content
function
lexical
vague
language
density
words
variety
words....refers
the
language
ratio
nouns,
'grammatical'
tothat
ofverbs,
the
content
amount
reveals
adjectives,
words
words
(or
a sensitivity
inlack
to
a sentence
function
of)
adverbs
substitution
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thea part
sentence
and
of repetition
the speaker n
ot to sound overly authoratative or superior e.g. it was some sort of electrical
-type thing verbs
delexicalised
verbs which have no real independent meaning without the
ir associated collocations
deictics
relating toe.g.
or characteristic
get, do, make of a word whose reference depends
on the circumstances of its use OR, Linguistic elements that must be interpreted
from the perspective of the speaker in order to be understood as the speaker in
tended. For example, (I/me, you), (this, that, these, those), (before, after, no
w and then),
frequency
range
availabilty
lexis
teachability
learnability
synophone
the the
all
number
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words
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ofthere),
number
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easy
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ney
the core, 'dictionary' meaning of a lexical item, with no layers
corpus
of social
a collection
or regionalofinterpretation
real-life texts, either written or spoken, which can be
analysed to investigate language use