Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 63 стр.

            adored”. Adored has a lexical meaning and a grammatical
            meaning. The grammatical meaning is that of a Participle II of a
            transitive verb. The denotational counterpart of the lexical
            meaning realizes the corresponding notion, and consists of several
            components, namely – feeling, attachment, intensity, respect. The
            connotational component is that of intensity and loftiness. The
            definition of adore is ‘to feel a great attachment and respect, to
            worship’.

                  III. One and the same word may have several meanings. A
            word that has more than one meaning is called polysemantic. The
            word ‘polysemy’ means ‘plurality of meanings’. It exists only in
            the language, not in speech. A word which has more than one
            meaning is called polysemantic. Different meanings of a
            polysemantic word may come together due to the proximity of
            notions which they express. E.g. the word ‘blanket’ has the
            following meanings: a woolen covering used on beds, a covering
            for keeping a horse warm, a covering of any kind /a blanket of
            snow/, covering all or most cases /used attributively/, e.g. we can
            say ‘a blanket insurance policy’. There are some words in the
            language which are monosemantic, such as most terms,
            /synonym, molecule, bronchitis/, some pronouns /this, my, both/,
            numerals.
                  There are two processes of the semantic development of a
            word: radiation and concatenation. In cases of radiation the
            primary meaning stands in the center and the secondary meanings
            proceed out it like rays. Each secondary meaning can be traced to
            the primary one. E.g. in the word ‘face’ the primary meaning
            denotes ‘the front part of the human head’. Connected with the
            front position the meanings: the front part of a watch, the front
            part of a building, the front part of a playing card were formed.
            Connected with the word ‘face’ itself the meanings: expression of
            the face, outward appearance are formed.
                  In cases of concatenation secondary meanings of a word
            develop like a chain. In such cases it is difficult to trace some
            meanings to the primary one. E.g. in the word ‘crust’ the primary

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