heteronymy

Example Sentences

• "We find also the ancient term ārcūbālīstǎ (or with II,) which, with the aid of otosis, elision, and heteronymy, arising out of the varying use and changing shape of the weapon, will account for all the forms cited."
• "The result of combined tautonymy and heteronymy can be either faster or slower replacement of non-American heteronyms, as these two examples demonstrate."
• "Heteronymy in grammar is partial homonymy, as when words have the same sound but different spelling (through, threw)."
• "...phenomenon that is here called sex heteronymy, which implies that the two sexes of animals (or human beings, for instance relatives) are referred to by words which are altogether dissimilar as in bull: cow, (aunt: uncle) Deer."
• "The relations listed here are in fact fundamental: the synonymy relation leads to the analysis of an existing vocabulary into classes of equivalent expressions (these can for instance belong to different sub-languages, or domains of use, or be of different degrees of complexity); the hyponymy rleation leads to a hierarchical analysis of the vocabulary (especially in the domain of general names - and depending on this it yields intersecting classifications of adjectives and verbs, according to the usability of adjectives and verbs with particular groups of nouns); the polarity relations lead to an anyalysis of the vocabulary (especially adjectives) according to particular dimensions and intradimensional classifications; only in the case of heteronymy does there normally exist a superordinate concept for the whole domain (also called a supernym)."
• "Heteronymy is a matter of more than two expressions. A typical example is the set of terms for the days of the week, the set of basic colour terms (for more on colour terms, see 10.4) or terms for kinds of animals, plants, vehicles, etc."