Abstract The article discusses a little-known lost Persian tale, Story of Sharwin Dastabay , and traces references to it in Arabic, Persian, Byzantine sources. earliest the story come from mid- late eighth century, seems have remained well known Arabic literature until early twelfth possibly fourteenth while shows that at least some its elements circulated already mid-sixth century. also how ma...

The adverb ”then” is among the most frequent English temporal adverbs, being also capable of filling a variety of semantic roles. The identification of anaphoric usages of ”then” is important for temporal expression resolution, while the temporal relationship usage is important for event ordering. Given that previous work has not tackled the identification and temporal resolution of anaphoric ”...