For example. «heart» has 5 meanings, «hearty» has 3 «heart- felt — 1,
heartily — 2, «girl» has 7 meanings, «girlhood» has 1, «girlish» — 2, girlishness
has 1 meaning etc», «man» has more than 11 meanings but the derived words
«manful», «manly», «manliness» have only one meaning each.
Derived words are as a rule poorer in the number of meanings and have
lower frequency value than the simple words. For examplethe noun «hand» has 15
meanings while the derived verb «to hand» has only one meaning, «teach» has 5
meanings but the word «teacher» has only 2 meanings.
We can see the interdependence between the number of meanings of the
word and its stylistic reference. The neutral style words with zero emotive charge
have more meanings than the literary, stylistically coloured words of some emotive
charge.
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