Published February 15, 2023 | Version v1
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POLYSEMY IN VERBS: SYSTEMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN SENSES AND THEIR EFFECT.

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This article is selected examples of  polysemantic verbs in short English sentences. In the method, literalness is distinguished because it satisfies contextual constraints that the nonliteral others all violate. Polysemy is discriminated anomaly in a way that [1] supports Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) view that in polysemantic verbs one entity stands for another whereas in polysemy one entity is viewed as another.    Out of the two hundred most frequent polysemantic verbal lexemes of the English language, we have identified 65 verbal lexemes that fall into the category of multi-seed.  Of the total number of tokens in this group, 15 turned out to be six -digit: become, believe, buy, decide, spend, cause, grow, smile, regard, enable, complete, cost, laugh, arise, define-, 10 - seven - digit:  need, provide, remain, create, relate, identify, forget, assume, prepare, examine; 18 - eight - digit: know, ask, allow, appear, continue, remember, understand, sell, apply, contain, arrive, plan, manage, maintain, admit, refuse, teach, notice, 11 - nine - digit: want, help, offer, consider, agree, build, involve, stay, affect, determine, fight and 11 more - ten - digit: try, bring, pay, hear, win, claim, wish, love, introduce, refer, share.

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