The meaning of a text can be generated by the composition of the meanings of all its units. The sentence meaning is not enough in itself and cannot be taken separately from the text context, it is a function of the text where this sentence appears. We propose below an approach which gives an account for this semantic phenomena. It is based on the minimal units of meaning following Harris’s gram...

Objective. The objective of the article is to familiarize yourself with general characteristics German prepositions and prepositional groups; consider structural features their positions within group; analyze governing syntactic functions groups in sentence; identify main sources difficulty for learners. Methods. scientific results are obtained applying a complex special research methods, namel...

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) perform poorly on sentence repetition tasks across different spoken languages, but until now, this methodology has not been investigated in children who have SLI in a signed language. Users of a natural sign language encode different sentence meanings through their choice of signs and by altering the sequence and inflections of these signs. Gramm...

A fundamental question in psycholinguistic theory is whether equivalent success in sentence comprehension may come about by different underlying operations. Of special interest is whether adult aging, especially when accompanied by reduced hearing acuity, may shift the balance of reliance on formal syntax vs. plausibility in determining sentence meaning. In two experiments participants were ask...

To understand a sentence, the meanings of the words in the sentence must be retrieved and combined. Are these meanings represented within the language system (the lexical hypothesis) or are they represented in a general conceptual system that is not restricted to language (the conceptual hypothesis)? To evaluate these hypotheses, sentences were presented in which a pictured object replaced a wo...

the study of lexical similarities is one of the most important issues in religious text interpretation without which the comprehension of the holy quran is almost impossible. this domain of scholarship dates back to the beginning of the islamic era, and great scholars, before and after tabarsi, have taken it into consideration. the number of quranic homophones and similarities in some books pub...

In this article, I will outline, how three meaning theoretic paradigms deal with the content of belief, and what difficulties each of them faces: the Fregean approach, the Neo-Russellian or direct reference approach, and the dualist approach as a mixture of both. The Fregean approach stipulates senses that correspond to linguistic expressions and fulfill various roles such as determining the tr...