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Article dans une revue Lexis. Journal in English Lexicology Année : 2015

On the polysemy of help

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The verb help is highly polysemous and some of its meanings even seem contradictory. In order to try and understand how this polysemy came into being, I propose a look back at examples from the early modern period onwards, so as to trace the link that unites each secondary meaning with the original meaning of help. These observations are compiled in a synthetical table and a graph, which show how a limited range of semantic features and syntactic structures interact to generate meaning.
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Mathilde Pinson. On the polysemy of help. Lexis. Journal in English Lexicology, 2015, Utterer-centeres studies on lexical issues, ⟨10.4000/lexis.943⟩. ⟨halshs-01423216⟩
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