ahmad matar is the prominent iraqi poet and a committed character of this age who in the contemporary arab world enjoys great fame. since the holy qur'an and religious texts, are the inspiring references to all arab poets, ahmed matar is no exception. the borrowing of qura'nic verses and contents in his poetry is due to his understanding and his wisdom in a unique manner. this article intends t...

The paper presents the newest research methodologies used in analysis and description of foreign lexical loans, such as usage-based approach, experimental set-ups, well corpus-assisted that includes automatic identification excerption unassimilated loanwords. approach design spring from revised perception linguistic borrowing contact linguistics, seen now a social act, which recipient language ...

In this article the morphological term creation is analyzed: affixation, conversion, general vocabulary processes and lexical-semantic relations in English system of education are also analyzed. The English-speaking terminology characterized as complex, stable dynamic. Its elements units autochthonous language borrowing from other languages, structure isomorphic to logical connections between c...

We formulate and study the requirement on an allocation rule that no agent should be able to benefit by augmenting his endowment through borrowing resources from the outside world (alternatively, by simply exaggerating it). We show that the Walrasian rule is not “borrowing-proof” even on standard domains. More seriously, no efficient selection from the endowments-lower-bound correspondence, or ...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

Semantic transparency (ST) is a measure quantifying the strength of meaning association between a compound word (buttercup) and its constituents (butter, cup). Borrowing ideas from computational semantics, we characterize ST in terms of the degree to which a compound and its constituents tend to share the same contexts in everyday usage, and we collect separate measures for different orthograph...