HOMONYMS

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• Two or more words identical in sound and spelling but different in meaning, distribution and in many cases origin are called homonyms.

SOURCES OF HOMONYMS

• Phonetic changes
• Borrowings
• Word building
• Split polysemy

CLASSIFICATION OF HOMONYMS OF WALTER SKEAT

• Proper homonyms(identical sound and spelling)
• Homographs(the same spelling but pronounced differently)
• Homophones(pronounced identically but spelled differently)

CLASSIFICATION OF HOMONYMS BY SMIRNITSKY

• Full homonyms
• Partial homonyms

CLASSIFICATION BY ARNOLD

• homonyms identical in their grammatical meanings, basic forms and paradigms and different in their lexical meanings,
• homonyms identical in their grammatical meanings and basic forms, different in their lexical meanings and paradigms
• homonyms different in their lexical meanings, grammatical meanings, paradigms, but coinciding in their basic forms,
• homonyms different in their lexical meanings, grammatical meanings, in their basic forms and paradigms, but coinciding in one of the forms of their paradigms