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Radial-chain (or mixed) polysemy is a combination of radial polysemy and chain polysemy. Here the configuration of a diagram depends on the word’s semantic structure, hence there is a great variety of diagrams illustrating this type of polysemy. Let us exemplify radial-chain polysemy by the word floor. It has the following meanings:

assemblage


sunace
Earth s surface


gathering

• earth
• /I ground
\ ! I V . land

flooring

dump

blow out of the water

coldcock

ball over

deck

take aback knock down
^Stors%ck trading floor stor\/^evel

solid ground
terra firma
dry land


Intersection as a type of relationships between the meanings of a polysemantic word may be characterized in the following way: all the meanings have a common semantic part (one semantic feature or several semantic fea­tures), and at the same time each meaning has its own specific part.

not able to produce children


Barren
These meanings have a common semantic feature “not producing”, in which they are intersected.
Inclusion as a type of relationships between the meanings of a polysemantic word takes place in those cases when one of the meanings is more complicated and broader than the other: it includes the semantic features of that meaning and at the same time has its own semantic part.
Here the second meaning includes and presupposes the first one. Look at the diagram representing the word ““skinhead”.