THE PROBLEM OF POLYSEMY İN MODERN ENGİSH AND AZERBAİJANİ LANGUAGE

Abstract

. A number of factors play a role in enriching the vocabulary of each language. Language is constantly deve-loping, innovating and enriching. This process takes place through the internal opportunities of the language, as well as at the account of words acquired from other languages. New words are formed for description of concepts existing around. But sometimes this process is completed at the expense of the words existing in the language itself. In other words, different concepts, events, and etc. in the language are expressed with the same sound complex. Although these words are the same phonetically, but their meanings are different. Homonymy is one of the most complex problems in linguistics. For a long time, homonymy was referred to the words and from this point of view homonymy was mentioned only in the lexicology section. Moreover, the great part of the research on this subject was directed to the homonymy of words. However, as a result of studies conducted over time, it became clear that the uniformity and variety in the meaning are not limited to words, but also referred to phoneme, morpheme, word combinations and sentences. For this reason, homonyms should also be discussed in grammar and phonetics sections. The issuse of investigation of polisemy is not limited to express in different properties of only one concept. All lexical units in language can take part in the expression of properties of several concepts. It is a linguistic identification of the limiting of words. The key feature for the meaning of the word is its understanding by everybody in the same form. If the meaning of the word is not understood exactly the same for all those who speak in this language, such words remain unused.