WORD FORMATION HOMONYMY AND POLYSEMY IN BELARUSIAN LANGUAGE
The article has been discussed the word formation homonymy and polysemy. It has been analysed the already existing academic research methods and approaches to the terminology, entity, corpus and scope of investigated phenomenon. Under word formation homonymy we subsume the homonymy of word formation formants, the homonymy of base-morpheme and formant, the homonymy of word form as well as the overlap in the process of word formation of various base morphemes. The word formation polysemy has been determined simply by the formants polysemy. The correlation between the word formation homonymy and the lexical one has been occured only in derivative polysemantic words. When differentiating between word formation homonymy and polysemy it is recommended to use complex approach with the leading semantic criteria.