The Malaysian Language is a formation of subject, predicate and object. The subject is the noun that take the action on the object and the predicate is the verb phrase in the sentence. Without a good corpus that can provide the part of speech, parsing is a complex process. As an option to the parsing, this paper discusses a way to identify the subject and the predicate, known as the pola-gramma...

Abstract Rate-setting is a problematic area for newcomers to translation and established practitioners alike. Survey data generally support the view that translators feel underpaid money matters remain chief ethical pragmatic concern, but appropriate guidance almost entirely absent from introductory textbooks on profession documentation prepared by industry associations remains unsatisfactory. ...

The roles and effects of changes in syntax on comprehension and processing effort, and the relationships between these two, comprise a large and separate field of inquiry, with the general belief now in place that such changes and variations bring about varied psycholinguistic and discursive implications for comprehension, manifesting themselves differently in different genres.The current study...

Linguistic research has clearly shown that natural languages exhibit different forms of negation. Foremost among these are sentence negation and predicate negation. In this study, the relationship between both will be discussed. In particular, it wiu be argued that we can give an accurate description of the logical connections between sentence negation and predicate negation by reference to the...

The paper addresses the relation between “strong” or presuppositional readings of indefinite noun phrases and the notion of topicality in its sentential and discourse-level formulations. Previous discussions of the issue were generally based on the interpretative properties of indefinite noun phrases at positions associated with topicality (e.g. subject of an individual-level predicate, within ...

1. introduction one of the features of oral poetry in aryan-indo-european tribes is the usage of epithets in their epic and religious works. after conducting research in oral poetry in yugoslavia and comparing results with literary features of iliad and odyssey, researchers concluded that these epithets along with the name of characters are based on formulas. homer had learned these formulas fr...