identification of word classes in connection with the differentiation between homonymy and polysemy

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: This paper is concerned with the linguistic phenomena of homonymy and polysemy. The term homonymy goes back to the Greek words "e;homos"e;, meaning "e;the same"e;, and "e;onoma"e;, meaning name. A ...