there is a semi-proverbial expression in some persian literary texts that has not yet indexed in none of persian dictionaries –such as loqat-nameh or any other proverb references and has been totally neglected. accordingly it seems necessary being explained.  it has been mentioned under different topics such as ibn-e hâjib’s lamb, ibn-e hâjib’s sheep, ibn-e hâjib’s ewe in divans of adib-ol-mamâ...

Linguistic convention (samaya/saṃketa) is one of the central notions Indian philosophy language. The well-known view samaya/saṃketa its conception as agreement initiating relationship between words and their previously unrelated meanings. However, in language, we also encounter two other important but little-researched interpretations samaya/saṃketa, which consider it established usage words. I...

as a one of the most important figures of speech among linguistic phenomena, metonymy is considered to be a factor involved in understanding the meaning of the speaker's intention correctly, hence it is frequently investigated from various aspects of literature, principles of jurisprudence and theology. ibn jinni was a famous grammarian and linguist in the 4th century a.h (10th century ad) who ...

At the end of the twentieth century , the Late Modern period still had to be described as ‘the Cinderella of English historical linguistic study’ (Jones 1989 : 279). Fortunately, this scenario has changed over the last fi fteen years or so. Among other things, the change of emphasis within historical linguistics to socio-historical and corpus-based approaches led to a surge of interest in Late ...

IN COMMENTING on the classical authors the medieval commentators very often used a formal introduction setting out a number of topics to be treated in the commentary upon the text. This accessus ad auctores has been discussed by Quain,' who lists a wide variety of branches of study in which the accessus was used; the only significant oniission from this list is medicine. Medical examples, howev...

In formulating grammatical descriptions, there is a natural and understandable tendency to focus solely on synchronic structural elements, based on the quite reasonable assumptions that structure is crucial to grammar and that coherent descriptions are possible only for one stage of a language at a time. Thus diachrony becomes irrelevant and extraneous to the goal of typology, under that view. ...

The subject of this study is the most famous and frequently used metarule Sanskrit grammar "Aṣṭādhyāyī" compiled by ancient Indian linguist Pāṇini. This called "bahiraṅgaparibhāṣā" serves to determine correct sequence grammatical operations prescribed in "Aṣṭādhy&...

В статье рассматривается полемика, развернувшаяся вокруг знаменитого аргумента Севира Антиохийского, согласно общей формулировке которого исповедание во Христе двух природ, взятых как общие природы божества и человечества, необходимо влечёт за собой согласие с тем, что воплощение Христа означает всей Троицы всём человечестве, а именно всех ипостасей в каждом из людей. На этот аргумент ответил с...

This study offers a thorough analysis of the assignment of case in (certain) Russian temporal adverbials in terms of three image schemas, which I shall refer to as CONTAINER, POINT and MEDIUM. These image schemas, it will be argued, enable us to formulate simple generalizations, some of which have not been explicated in the scholarly literature before. An important contribution in this respect ...

One of the major motivations for a constructionbased approach to syntax is that a given rule of syntactic formation can often be associated with more than one semantic specification. For example, a pair of expressions like purple plum and alleged thief call on different rules of semantic combination. The first involves something related to intersection of sets: a purple plum is a member of the ...