Re: Linguist問題( polysemy and homonymy)

Posted by Tim Luo on 2007/6/9 0:00:04

This link should give some clue.

http://blog.hjenglish.com/liyan8589/archive/2007/01/03/574701.aspx

Basically polysemy refers to meanings that evolved or extended from the same source while homonymy refers to meanings from different origins that happen to share the same form now.

Tim