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== Homonyms in historical linguistics == Homonymy can lead to communicative conflicts and thus trigger lexical ([[onomasiology|onomasiological]]) change.<ref>On this phenomenon see Williams, Edna R. (1944), ''The Conflict of Homonyms in English'', [Yale Studies in English 100], New Haven: Yale University Press, [[Joachim Grzega|Grzega, Joachim]] (2004), ''Bezeichnungswandel: Wie, Warum, Wozu? Ein Beitrag zur englischen und allgemeinen Onomasiologie'', Heidelberg: Winter, p. 216ff., and Grzega, Joachim (2001d), “Über Homonymenkonflikt als Auslöser von Wortuntergang”, in: Grzega, Joachim (2001c), ''Sprachwissenschaft ohne Fachchinesisch: 7 aktuelle Studien für alle Sprachinteressierten'', Aachen: Shaker, p. 81-98.</ref> This is known as ''homonymic conflict''. This leads to a species of [[informal fallacy]] of thought and argument called by the latin name [[equivocation]].
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