ashura event is one of the most important historical events thathas gained a great deal of attention not only from muslim scholars but also from many non-muslims as well. considering historical-cultural relation betweeniranand arabs, especially iniraq, ashura has emerged as a common element in culture of both nations. this helps us to make comparative studies on the two cultures.  in addition, ...

My interest in this topic is as an English linguist who, in the course of communicating over recent years with French Romance linguists, largely within the framework of the LADL research network of Maurice Gross, has become more aware of the treasury of French vocabulary and phraseology in my own language. So it is curiosity that has led to this initial study. My intention is to look into the l...

There is a feeling abroad in some quarters that linguists are on the endangered species list. The reasoning seems to be that, when the climate changes, the ones who are most exposed are those who have become so specialized as to live off just one particular kind of tree. Most subjects have their periods of specialization: moments when the focus is narrowed, the perspective sharpened, and the re...

Metalinguistic intuitions play a very large evidential role in both linguistics and philosophy. Linguists think that these intuitions are products of underlying linguistic competence. I call this view “the voice of competence” (“VoC”). Althoughmany philosophers seem to think that metalinguistic intuitions are a priori many may implicitly hold the more scientifically respectable VoC. According t...

For the past twenty-five years or so, there has been a running dispute between literary critics and linguists on the question of whether it is appropriate to apply linguistic methods -that is to say, methods derived from the discipline of linguisticsto the study of l i terature. There has been almost universal confidence among the linguistis that this activity is entirely justified; and almost ...

We present in this paper our project to building an ontology centered infrastructure for Arabic resources and applications. The core of this infrastructure is a linguistic ontology that is founded on Arabic Traditional Grammar. The methodology we have chosen consists in reusing an existing ontology, namely the Gold linguistic ontology. We discuss the development of the ontology and present our ...

This paper relates to two articles by Arnim von Stechow, whom I have always admired for his semantic expertise but with whom at the same time I have always quarrelled in questions on the overall architecture of grammar. I first present an argument showing that morphology restricts adverbial scope differently from syntax. I will then provide a couple of arguments playing with the Voice hypothesi...

The goal of this article is to familiarize the reader who has background in theoretical linguistics with some of the recent research in aphasiology. Needless to say, it is far beyond the space limitation, and my capacity, to present all work carried out in the field of language impairment, even during the last decade. My goal is more modest: I will attempt to demonstrate how the interaction of ...