polysemers
Polysemers are units in language that host multiple related senses. The term, coined in contemporary linguistics, refers to a sign—such as a word, phrase, or symbol—that carries more than one meaning in a way that the senses remain cognitively linked. This concept foregrounds polysemy at the level of the sign itself rather than treating each sense as an entirely separate lexical item.
Polysemy is typically analyzed on a continuum from tightly related to more distantly related senses. Polysemers
Common examples include the word set, which can mean a collection, an act of placing, a fixed
Analyses of polysemers involve corpus data, semantic networks, and cross-linguistic comparison to map sense clusters and