Artificial homonymy

The paper presents a discussion of homonymy of Czech nouns with different or varying genders. The lemmas with this type of homonymy are treated in the new release of the MorfFlex dictionary as separate. We show that the separation of paradigms according to the gender is not only superfluous, but als...

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Published in:Jazykovedný časopis 2021-12, Vol.72 (2), p.330-341
Main Author: Hlaváčová, Jaroslava
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied Linguistics
Czech language
Dictionaries
dictionary
Gender
gender variation
Homonyms
homonymy
Language and Literature Studies
Lexicography
Lexis
Nouns
Polysemy
Theoretical Linguistics
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Summary:The paper presents a discussion of homonymy of Czech nouns with different or varying genders. The lemmas with this type of homonymy are treated in the new release of the MorfFlex dictionary as separate. We show that the separation of paradigms according to the gender is not only superfluous, but also clumsy, because it forces a choice when making one is not necessary. That is why we call this type of homonymy "artificial".
ISSN:0021-5597
1338-4287
1338-4287
DOI:10.2478/jazcas-2021-0031