The period of Sangam literature was preceded by the Natrinai period, first literary work compiled. It is a book that combines richness with grammatical richness. parables in narrative add beauty to songs abundance and detail. This thesis intended explain how parable, which composed numbers details, makes sense poems. tendency compare one thing another natural characteristic all human beings. op...

the main purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of metaphor and its functions in education. there are two main parts in this paper: the first is to discuss the six major classic and modern theories of metaphor according to their cognitive and intellectual functions , and the second is to identify and classify the four types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, allegory an...

PURPOSE To characterize the mean length utterance in morphemes (MLU-m) and words (MLU-w) produced by children with Down syndrome (DS), and to verify the effectiveness of using EME-w as a measure of general language development of children with DS. METHODS Participants were 15 children with ages between 5 and 12 years, who were submitted to a free interaction situation. They were divided into ...

Abstract One of the great unknowns in language evolution is transition from unstructured sign combination to grammatical structure. This paper investigates central — while hitherto overlooked role functor–argument metaphor. type metaphor pervades modern language, but absent animal communication. It arises semantic clash between default meanings terms. Functor–argument became logically possible ...