A Contribution to the Study of Polisemy in Serbian Cover Image

Прилог проучавању полисемије српског језика
A Contribution to the Study of Polisemy in Serbian

Author(s): Nataša Milanov, Milica Stojanović
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Lexis, Semantics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Slavistički komitet BiH
Keywords: Polysemy; lexeme; meaning;

Summary/Abstract: This paper, based on the corpus of two selected tomes of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Dictionary, analyzes relationship between polysemy and length of lexemes, as well as semantic construction of polysemic lexemes. By polemisemic lexeme, we consider one who has at least fifteen recorded definitions in dictionary

  • Issue Year: I/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 493-504
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian