Categories are not invariant. This paper attempts to explore the dynamic nature of semantic category, in particular, that of fashion language, based on the cognitive theory of Dawkins’ memetics, a new theory of cultural evolution. Semantic attributes of linguistic memes decrease or proliferate in replication and spreading, which involves a dynamic development of semantic category. More specific...

This article is devoted to the study of notion reduplication in linguistics; concepts full, partial are given. marvel and features their construction. Reduplication terms expression not limited repeating same units or only one basis syllable. Repetitions also considered as repetitions associated with complete repetition a reductive sound, well “repetition synonymous lexical units, that is, crea...

The article is devoted to discussing transformed phraseological units based on the American government blog materials. theoretic part of work touches upon question terminology. authors study existing approaches fixedness (stability, irregularity, occasional use, modifications) units. We seek analyze modified variants units, describe mechanisms transformations, and provide their translations. Sp...

Extracting semantic roles is one of the major steps in representing text meaning. It refers to finding the semantic relations between a predicate and syntactic constituents in a sentence. In this paper we present a semantic role labeling system for Persian, using memory-based learning model and standard features. We show that good semantic parsing results can be achieved with a small 1300-sente...

The paper discusses the derivational and semantic characteristics of zoonymous onomatopoeia, based on imitation animal sounds. According to their morphological communicative features, these units are primarily interjections. Nevertheless, from other onomatopoeic words, onomatopoeias stand out for productivity characteristics. methodology applied in work includes usual procedures semantic-deriva...

The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor Eric Atwell, Bill Whyte for helpful commentary and suggestions and also to Clive Souter, George Demetriou who provided me with LKB dictionary and gave me good suggestions. ...

Meaning-Shift unit put forward by John Sinclair is the latest theory of meaning in corpus linguistics early 21st century. In this paper, it aims to analyze units wanquan, an attempt shed light on whether valid account for behavior such a Chinese intensifier. The result illustrates that influenced categories co-selection, which semantic prosody plays decisive role, and wanquan has four types uni...

This paper presents a new approach for content analysis and semantic summarization of instructional videos of blackboard presentations. We first use low-level image processing techniques to segment frames into board content regions, regions occluded by instructors, and irrelevant areas, then measure the number of chalk pixels in the content areas of each frame. Using the number of chalk pixels ...