Abstract This article deals with four unpublished Judeo-Spanish proverb collections from post-Holocaust Bosnia that were gathered there by different members of the Sephardic community: three men (Binjo Samokovlija, David Baruh, and Jakov Konforti) one woman (Flora Eškenazi). I specifically examine two working techniques these authors/collectors applied in order to safeguard disseminate this imp...

Abstract This study has set out to identify, quantify, typify, and exemplify the discourse functions of canonical antonymy in Arabic paremiography by comparing two manually collected datasets from Egyptian Saudi (Najdi) dialects. Building upon Jones’s (2002) most extensive often-cited classification antonyms as they co-occur within syntactic frames news discourse, substantially revised this dev...

We present the results of an agreement task carried out in the framework of the KNOW Project and consisting in manually annotating an agreement sample totaling 50 sentences extracted from the SenSem corpus. Diambiguation was carried out for all nouns, proper nouns and adjectives in the sample, all of which were assigned EuroWordNet (EWN) synsets. As a result of the task, Spanish WN has been sho...

different studies in writing skill of second language learners show that they are weak in this skill. they know some vocabularies and grammatical rules but are unable to write a different kinds of texts. the study of contrastive rhetorics can help learners and teachers in this area. moreover, discourse markers that indicate rhetoric styles and principles have an important role in writing skill....