Abstract
In both polysemy and homonymy, a single word form is associated with multiple distinct meanings, but while in polysemy one lexical item has more than one related meaning, homonymy involves distinct lexical items and the meanings are not related. Distinguishing between polysemes and homonyms is, however, not always uncontroversial. Another challenge is presented by the distinction between polysemy and vagueness, which involves determining what counts as a distinct meaning. Different theoretical approaches vary in how the relatedness and distinctness of meanings is established in relation to the representation of word meaning and the structure of the lexicon.
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