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fundamental claim is that a polysemous word is assigned a single abstract core sense. In favor of a minimal approach, Ruhl (1989: 51) defines the notion of abstract as the opposite of concrete and the notion of superordinate as the absence of contextual meaning so that the general abstract sense of a word is unspecified and hence nearly empty in meaning. The single core sense, which is characterized by a set of semantic features, is common to, and derives all the related senses by abstract instruction rules or pragmatic specifications (cf. Caramazza & Grober 1976; Ruhl 1989). Abstractionists rightly note that there is some relationship among the various senses of a lexical item on the surface level. They also put some considerable weight on the role of human cognitive process, i.e., inference and metonymic shift. However, they argue that the multiple senses of a word are not part of inherent semantic knowledge of an abstract core monoseme, but are rather attributed to contextual and pragmatic factors.In favor of monosemy against polysemy, Ruhl (1989) also argues that the verbs kick and slap, as their respective abstract senses, represent MOVEMENT and CONTACT VERBS. He states that MOVEMENT and CONTACT VERBS are the only inherent semantic cores in characterizing the verbs kick and slap, and encompass all the various senses of the verbs kick and slap. All the other additional information, e.g., path, direction, and instrumental entities, is presented by certain prepositional phrases, sentence structures, and pragmatic specifications:
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polysemy, homonymy, abstract core sense, family resemblance, entrenchment, frame, metaphor
