ems summarize the ideas concerning the modern methods and practical approaches in investigating the linguistic phenomenon of homonyms and polysemantic words.conclusion of this term paper sums up the ideas discussed in the main part (the first item) and shows the ways of implying of the term paper (in the second item). object of this term paper is word which is identical in sound-form but different in meaning. It is traditionally termed like homonymous. Modern English is exceptionally rich in homonymous words and word-forms. It is held that languages ​​where short words abound have more homonyms than those where longer words are divalent. Therefore it is sometimes suggested that abundance of homonyms in Modern English is to be accounted for by the monosyllabic structure of the commonly used English words.only words but other linguistic units may be homonymous. Here, however, we are concerned with the homonymy of words and word-forms only, so we shall not touch upon the problem of homonymous affixes or homonymous phrases. When analyzing different cases of homonymy we find that some words are homonymous in all their forms, ie homonymy of the paradigms of two or more different words as, eg, in seal! - 'a sea animal' and seal2-'a design printed on paper by means of a stamp'. The paradigm "seal, seal's, seals, seals '" is identical for both of them and gives no indica ¬ tion of whether it is sea or seal that we are analyzing. In other cases, e.g. seal-'a sea animal' and (to) seal-'to close tightly', we see that although some individual word-forms are homonymous, the whole of the paradigm is not identical. Compare, for instance, the paradigms: (to) seal3seal's sealssealed 'sealing, etcsubject of this term paper is homonyms, their individual and partial forms. It is easily observed that only some of the word-forms (eg seal, seals, etc.) Are homonymous, whereas others (eg sealed, sealing) are not. In such cases we cannot speak of homonymous words but only of homonymy of individual word-forms or of partial homonymy. This is true of a number of other cases, e.g. compare find [famdj, found [faund], found [faund] and found [faundj, founded ['faundidj, founded [faundid]; know [nou], knows [nouz], knew [nju:], and no [nou] ; nose [nouz], noses [nouzizj; new [nju:] in which partial homonymy is observed. Consequently all cases of homonymy may be classified into full and partial homonymy, homonymy of words and homonymy of individual word-forms. Exactly, Professor 0.Jespersen calculated that there are roughly four times as many monosyllabic as polysyllabic homonyms. br/>
II.MAIN PART
Chapter 1. The theoretical aspects of the research
.1 Phonetic coincidence and semantic differences of homonyms
Words identical in sound-form but different in meaning are traditionally termed homonymous....
