In contrast to the "monosemy" case [...] we [...] say that a designatum may contain disjunctions between its components. Using A, B,... as signs and (c1 • c2 • ...) as their designata, we define: ( A (c1 V c2) 'Polysemy' ( ( A [c1 • (c2 V c3)] etc. [...] In this presentation, the signs A, B, C... need to be words or even lesser segmental elements; grammatical processes, too, are given to polysemy [...].
- Weinreich (1963), a pag.142