ketab-ol-ein, which was written by ahmad farahidi, is one of the oldest dictionaries that exist today. in the preliminary discussion we mentioned that, although historical sources show that the work of ibn abbas looks like a dictionary, it is becoming accepted that ketab-ol-ein is the first dictionary. the article starts with explanations about the life and work of khalilibn ahmad. we have also...

In Indonesia, a folk tale is used as medium of entertainment well teaching tool for children. Parents read folktales to their children at night. Folktales are in the text Indonesian lessons elementary education level. However, folktale suspected being gender-biased. Although there research on this subject, still little originating from Eastern Indonesia. Previous conducted focused western regio...

The article deals with the study of traditional linguistic formulas in folk tales Russkoye Ustye and value-semantic space inherent Russian old residents' subdialects Yakutia testifying to figurative-speech stereotypes culture. Presumably, since beginning 17th century, residents have been compactly living a foreign-language environment Arctic territory Republic Sakha (Yakutia), largest federal s...

This paper proposes an innovative approach to improve the classification performance of Persian texts. The proposed method uses a thesaurus as a helpful knowledge to obtain more representative word-frequencies in the corpus. Two types of word relationships are considered in our used thesaurus. This is the first attempt to use a Persian thesaurus in the field of Persian information retrieval. Ex...

In this article, we have introduced the first parallel corpus of Persian with more than 10 other European languages. This article describes primary steps toward preparing a Basic Language Resources Kit (BLARK) for Persian. Up to now, we have proposed morphosyntactic specification of Persian based on EAGLE/MULTEXT guidelines and specific resources of MULTEXT-East. The article introduces Persian ...

Mastering vocabulary knowledge has always been a major concern for language learners (Nation, 2002). The present research mainly concerned with the impression comparing the performance of Iranian bilingual EFL students with monolingual groups by means of the treatment of the etymology of unknown English words upon their vocabulary retention. The ongoing research aimed at exploring the significa...