Р е ф е р а т homonyms in the English language Знобищева Мария Сергеевна ученица «Г» класса Головко Ольга Владимировна Тамбов 2013 Lyceum 29 Report Homonyms in the English language Znobishcheva Masha g teacher: Golovko O

2.4. Classification of Homonyms given by A.I. Smirnitsky

The subdivision of homonyms into homonyms proper, homophones and homographs is certainly not precise enough and doesn’t reflect certain important features of these words. And Professor Smirnitsky gives more detailed classification of homonyms. According to it, there are two large classes: full homonyms and partial homonyms.

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   Full lexical homonyms are words which represent the same category of parts of speech and have the same paradigm. For example, match, n.-a game, a contest and match, n. – a short piece of wood used for producing fire.
   
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