In addition to the reliance of many financial transactions on this verse, verse "And God has permitted sale," which, despite its few words, contained fundamental and jurisprudential details, is a declaration greatness Qur'anic verses, whose verbal structure simple while meanings are numerous. This investigation reveals use noble as an example obvious text clearly denoting two sections in princi...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors and little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. The most adjective metaphor studies have only examined how the acceptability of adjective metaphors can be explained by the pairing of adjective modifier’s and head noun’s modalities. Sakamoto & Utsumi (2009) showed that adjective metaphor...

Cognitive semantics relates linguistic expressions to conceptual structures. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for such a cognitive structure. As a preparation, Putnam’s argument against intensional semantics as a theory of meaning is presented. Some of the main tenets of cognitive semantics as it has developed during the last years are outlined. The notion of a conceptual spa...

Wemodel semantic interpretation operationally : constituents interact as their combination in discourse evolves from state to state. The states are recursive data structures and evolve from step to step by context-sensitive rewriting. These notions of context and order let us explain inverse-scope quantifiers and their polarity sensitivity as metalinguistic quotation of the wider scope.

The event template for a verb is a lexical representation of the type of event that the verb can denote. Manner of motion verbs have a simple template: An entity is engaged in a manner of motion activity (e.g., walk). Change of location verbs have a different template: An entity changes from one location to another (e.g., arrive). We propose, and support empirically, that these templates determ...

The article continues the research, which centers on comparison of Mikalojus Daukša’s Catechism (DK, 1595) and its Polish original – Jakub Ledesma’s (LeK, ~1572). This time focuses polysemy word širdis, becomes apparent in fixations this texts (Daukša’s Postilla (DP, 1599) is referred to as an additional source) their equivalents well contexts usage. DK lexeme širdis corresponds LeK serce, serd...