There's indeed some ambiguity hesitate to call it "polysemy" since it seems to be a historical development around "hair cloth/shirt", which I came across only days ago reading up on Thomas More.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MORE PYNCHONIAN VOCAB.] Reference

Topics range from particular language and construction-specific problems such as the "polysemy" of modal verbs in relation to context-sensitive constructions, to general technical analyses and proposals, including proposals for formalizing contextual features in constructional representations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uz-Translations : Linguistics : Contexts and Constructions (Constructional Approaches to Language)] Reference

Here's my 2001 MA thesis on polysemy in advertising.    From Wordnik.com.  [My MA thesis Wordled...] Reference

And finally, is turkey an instance of metonymous polysemy or not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name] Reference

And note the nice pun/polysemy and thus translation problem in the blog's name.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SPICY LANGUAGE.] Reference

I wonder how and why human languages seem to be so completely content with the wild and multifarious polysemy and ambiguity that afflicts them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference

Also a question that crops up in technical translation how many different words can be used to describe the same object polyreference as opposed to polysemy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the biggest load of rubbish...] Reference

This is the polysemy and metonymy among the terms Afghan, Pashtun (and its primary variant Pakhtun, and permutations of vowels in both constructs), and Pathan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier] Reference

Coupled with the ability to generalize from words to concepts, this approach addresses the two main problems of natural language processing synonymy and polysemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video Webcast: Look at Automated Categorization Research « ResourceShelf] Reference

WALS consists of 141 maps with accompanying texts on diverse features (such as vowel inventory size, noun-genitive order, passive constructions, and "hand"/"arm" polysemy), each of which is the responsibility of a single author (or team of authors).    From Wordnik.com.  [Well, Well, WALS] Reference

With Brodsky there is the opposite problem—he uses register, reference, polysemy, and every other resource he can work into his text until it presents an interwoven thicket that can be plucked at or hacked at but not, in the normal sense, translated.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SCUTCH.] Reference

Current search algorithms are based on keywords, patterns of misspelling, and some more complicated semantic information, including polysemy the word bank, for example, refers to “financial institution” but includes meanings for both the organization and its physical site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fishbird : Girl’s name + aquatic animal] Reference

It is in fact polysemy that is the major cause of semantic taint.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference

Patient empowerment in theory and practice: polysemy or cacophony?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Medical Internet Research] Reference

Seriously, discussions like this drive me nuts, because some people have zero grasp of the idea of polysemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

If you want some fancy words for how puns can be created, consider homophony, homography, homonomy, or polysemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune] Reference

There are many thousands of such jokes in every language, for they depend for their humor on polysemy or homonymy, which exists in all languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference

Perhaps there is, for a start, simply more polysemy about of the relevant kind: new metaphorical senses, through the process of "radiation," are continually accumulating.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference

Overheated word-consciousness is a particularly favorable environment for various other linguistic conditions: polysemy proper, connotation, "semantic taint," "idio-connotation," and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference

I do disagree with their conclusions about polysemy, since the repurposing of the term is a cynical propaganda ploy as opposed to a genuine shift in meaning, but I am probably in the wrong here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lakeshore] Reference

I think English speakers are well-equipped to handle the polysemy of media, using it for both "the (mass) media" (as disseminated by traditional media companies) and the more bottom-up, user-generated type of collaborative exchanges that go on when people socialize online.    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

Now, that's what I call polysemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: ODI ET AMO.] Reference

He highlighted the polysemy of “wholes”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reductionism in Biology] Reference

Two more good examples of polysemy here and here.    From Wordnik.com.  [HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND ILLUSTRATING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH » Sociological Images] Reference

"weaknesses" that natural languages suffer -- polysemy and pleurisemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4] Reference

"The ` messiness 'of language, its fundamental difference from the ordered, closed systematization of mathematics or formal logic, the polysemy of individual words, are neither a defect nor a surface feature which can be cleared up by the analysis of deep structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2] Reference

Is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of more than 40 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject). of 141 maps with accompanying texts on diverse features (such as vowel inventory size, noun-genitive order, passive constructions, and "hand" / "arm" polysemy), each of which is the responsibility of a single author (or team of authors).    From Wordnik.com.  [Yulblog - Yulblog est une liste de carnetistes Montréalais et un endroit où s'informer des activitées tenues en personne.] Reference

Hooray for polysemy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [OLD SPICE BODY WASH AND PENIS SIZE » Sociological Images] Reference

Are you perhaps thinking of polysemy here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Word Nerd Word of the Day polysemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Verb] Reference

Comparative linguistics, endangered languages, grammar, language hat, languages, lexical, passive construction, phonology, polysemy, wals comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Well, Well, WALS] Reference

Alfabet (1981) is a book-length poem using two reticulating systems: the alphabet (that adamic, prelapsarian state of language, as Roland Barthes suggests, because it is pre-word & pre-syntax, & thus before misuse, lying, rhetoric, polysemy are possible) & the Fibonacci series (where each number is the sum of the two previous ones, i.e.: 1,2,3,5,8,13,34,47,81,128 ...).    From Wordnik.com.  [Nomadics] Reference