Analyzing the Behavioral Profiles of Sets of Near-synonyms in American English from a Diachronic Perspective
Daniela Pettersson-Traba · Repositorio institucional da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (University of Santiago de Compostela) · 2016
It is a rather generalized assumption that synonymy is relatively straightforward and unproblematic, being the semantic relation which is familiar to most people, including nonlinguists. However, despite being a common linguistic phenomenon, synonymy is also a particularly complex one (Cruse, 2000; Liu, 2010)