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Homonymy. The problem of polysemy is closely connected with the problem 
of homonymy. Homonyms are words which have the same form but are different in 
meaning. "The same form" implies identity in sound form or spelling, i.e. all the three 
aspects are taken into account: sound-form, graphic form and meaning. 
Both meanings of the form "liver'' are, for instance, intentionally present in the 
following play upon words; "Is life worth living ? - It depends upon the liver". The 
most widely accepted classification of homonyms is that recognising homonyms 
proper, homophones and homographs. 
Homonyms proper (or perfect, absolute) are words identical in pronunciation 
аnd spelling but different in meaning, like back n. "part of the body" - back adv. 
"away from the front" - back v. "go back"; bear n. "animal" - bear v, "carry, tolerate". 
Homophones are words of the same sound but of different spelling and 
meaning: air - heir, buy - by, him - hymn, steel - steal, storey - story. 
Homographs are words different in sound and in meaning but accidentally 
identical in spelling: bow [bou] - bow [bau], lead [li:d] - lead [led]. 
Homoforms - words identical in some of their grammatical forms. To bound 
(jump, spring) - bound (past participle of the verb bind); found (establish) -found 
(past participle of the verb find). 
Paronyms are words that are alike in form, but different in meaning and usage. 
They are liable to be mixed and sometimes mistakenly interchanged. The term 
paronym comes from the Greek para "beside" and onoma "name". Examples are: 
precede - proceed, preposition - proposition, popular - populous. Homonyms in 
English are very numerous. Oxford English Dictionary registers 2540 homonyms, of 
which 89% are monosyllabic words and 9,1% are two-syllable words. 


So, most homonyms are monosyllabic words. The trend towards 
monosyllabism, greatly increased by the loss of inflections and shortening, must have 
contributed much toward increasing the number of homonyms in English . Among the 
other ways of creating homonyms the following processes must be mentioned: 
conversion which serves the creating of grammatical homonyms, e.g. iron -to iron, 
work - to work, etc.; polysemy - as soon as a derived meaning is no longer felt to be 
connected with the primary meaning at all (as in bar - балка; bar - бар; bar - 
адвокатура) polysemy breaks up and separate words come into existence, quite 
different in meaning from the basic word but identical in spelling. 
From the viewpoint of their origin homonyms are sometimes divided into 
historical and etymological. 
Historical homonyms are those which result from the breaking up of polysemy; 
then one polysemantic word will split up into two or more separate words, e.g. to bear 
/терпеть/ - to bear /родить/ pupil /ученик/ - pupil /зрачок/ plant /растение / - plant 
/завод/ 
Etymo1ogiсal homonyms are words of different origin which come to be alike 
in sound or in spelling (and may be both written and pronounced alike). 
Borrowed and native words can coincide in form, thus producing homonyms 
(as in the above given examples). 
In other cases homonyms are a result of borrowing when several different 
words become identical in sound or spelling. E.g. the Latin vitim - "wrong", "an 
immoral habit" has given the English vice - "evil conduct"; the Latin vitis -"spiral" 
has given the English ''vice" - тиски "apparatus with strong jaws in which things can 
be hold tightly"; the Latin vice - "instead of", "in place of" will be found in vice
president. 
It should be noted that the most debatable problem in homonymy is the 
demarcation line between homonymy and polysemy, i.e. between different meanings 
of one word and the meanings of two or more homonymous words. 




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