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    Challenges→The word 'light' is ambiguous (or polysemous) between 'not dark' and 'not heavy'

    Grice's cooperative maxims predict that conjoining radically different subject-predicate pairs violates relevance, generating zeugmatic oddness independently of polysemy.

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    • 1.Zeugma like 'lost his keys and his mind' shows oddness even with identical predicates, suggesting relevance violations drive the effect.
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    • 2.Grice's maxims explain why 'He broke the vase and broke into tears' feels awkward despite shared verb—subjects differ radically in type.
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    • 3.Relevance-based accounts predict zeugma independently of lexical ambiguity, correctly excluding polysemy from explanatory load.
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    • 1.Many zeugmas ('took his coat and his leave') feel acceptable despite radical subject differences, undercutting relevance-only explanations.
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    • 2.Grice's maxims govern assertion-level communication, not sentence-level composition; relevance violations alone don't explain grammatical oddness.
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    • 3.Zeugmatic oddness correlates with semantic type-shifting requirements, suggesting compositionality constraints matter more than conversational maxims.
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