Adjectives , more than other categories , are a striking example of regular polysemy since they are able to take on different meanings depending on their context , viz. , the noun or noun class they modify ( see Pustejovsky ( 1995 ) and the references therein ) .
the generative lexicon
James Pustejovsky
Much recent work in lexical semantics has been concerned with accounting for regular polysemy , i.e. , the regular and predictable sense alternations certain classes of words are subject to . Adjectives , more than other categories , are a striking example of regular polysemy since they are able to take on different meanings depending on their context , viz. , the noun or noun class they modify ( see Pustejovsky ( 1995 ) and the references therein ) . The adjective fast in ( 1 ) receives different interpretations when modifying the nouns programmer , plane and scientist .
Adjectives , more than other categories , are a striking example of regular polysemy since they are able to take on different meanings depending on their context , viz. , the noun or noun class they modify ( see @@CITATION and the references therein ) .