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<p>The paper presents a discussion of homonymy of Czech nouns with different or varying genders. The lemmas with this type of homonymy are treated in the new release of the MorfFlex dictionary as separate. We show that the separation of paradigms according to the gender is not only superfluous, but also clumsy, because it forces a choice when making one is not necessary. That is why we call this type of hononymy “artificial”.</p>
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The paper presents a discussion of homonymy of Czech nouns with different or varying genders. The lemmas with this type of homonymy are treated in the new release of the MorfFlex dictionary as separate. We show that the separation of paradigms according to the gender is not only superfluous, but also clumsy, because it forces a choice when making one is not necessary. That is why we call this type of hononymy “artificial”.

Artificial Homonymy

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper presents a discussion of homonymy of Czech nouns with different or varying genders. The lemmas with this type of homonymy are treated in the new...

Artificial Homonymy

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 330 - 341

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0031

Keywords
homonymy, polysemy, gender variation, dictionary

© 2021 Jaroslava Hlaváčová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Artificial Homonymy

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 330 - 341

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0031

Keywordshomonymy, polysemy, gender variation, dictionary

© 2021 Jaroslava Hlaváčová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
homonymy, polysemy, gender variation, dictionary