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Syntagmatic variability of a word as a source of vagueness of lexical meaning (Through the analysis of English body-part terms)

Tur V.V.

Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus, Minsk, vitaly.tur@gmail.com

Abstract

The study focuses on the comparison of the lexicographic data on the English word head with its corpus-based frequency data. It is demonstrated that different dictionary meanings of the word head are represented with different frequency depending on a particular exemplar of the referent. The conclusion is made that there is no direct correlation between the word meaning as fixed in the language and its realization.

Keywords

lexical meaning; identity of lexical meaning; word meaning boundaries; polysemy.

For citing: Tur V.V. (2020). Syntagmatic variability of a word as a source of vagueness of lexical meaning (Through the analysis of English body-part terms). Ethnopsycholinguistics. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol.3, pp. 47-60. DOI: 10.31249/epl/2020.03.04

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