Chapter 6

______ is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages  because the majority of words have more than one meaning.

The two approaches to the development of polysemy are ______ and ______.

Sychronically, the basic meaning of a word is the core of word meaning; it is called the _______ meaning.

The development of word meaning from monosemy to polysemy follows two courses, traditionally called ______ and ______.

______ are words different in meaning but either identical both in sound and spelling or identical only in sound or spelling.

All of the following are the sources of homonyms except______

Words which are identical in meaning in all aspects are called_______.

Absolute synonyms are ______.

apple and pear are _______ of fruit.

Based on the degree of similarity, homonyms fall into three types:________, homographs and_________.

______ is a semantic process in which the primary meaning stands at the center and the secondary meanings proceed out of it in every direction like rays.

Concatenation describes a process where each of the later meanings is related only to the preceding one like a ______.

Synonyms can be defined as words different in sound and _______ but most nearly alike or exactly the same in meaning.