Similes The simile is a figure of speech that describes something by comparing or establishing its similarity to something else‚ using ‘like’ or ‘as’. This device makes the description more emphatic. Similes are written in the following forms: 1. [subject] [verb] AS [adjective] AS...[noun] The athlete was AS nimble AS a cat. 1. [subject] [verb] LIKE...[noun] This food tastes LIKE garbage. He drives LIKE a maniac. Here are some common examples of similes‚ with their meanings: ...as
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трансгрессивные категории‚ категории постоянного признака и категории переменного признака. Key terms: category‚ grammatical category‚ individual grammatical form (meaning)‚ categorial grammatical meaning‚ paradigmatic opposition‚ common features‚ differential features‚ binary and supra-binary oppositions‚ privative (equipollent‚ gradual) oppositions‚ formal mark (marker)‚ strong (marked‚ positive) member of the opposition‚ weak (unmarked‚ negative) member of the opposition‚ reduction of the opposition
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the other hand‚ in Arabic‚ there is a general agreement that the homonym is an expression with one enunciation (or form) and more than one meaning. Actually‚ this phenomenon creates lexical and syntactic ambiguity in both languages. Thus‚ it should be studied and examined. In addition‚ homonymy has its own features‚ specifications and forms in each language. Hence‚ this research aims at: 1- investigating homonymy in English and Arabic. 2- making a comparison between the two languages to show
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Topic: Hyponymy: One type of branching lexical hierarchies; and a distinction between hyponymy and meronymy Table of Content I. Introduction 2 II. Hyponymy 2 III. Distinction between Hyponymy and Meronymy 3 III. 1: Meronymy 3 III. 2: The distinction 4 IV. Bibliography 4 I. Introduction Every day we are confronted with lexical hierarchies in our correspondences‚ without actually thinking about it. One type of branching lexical hierarchies is the taxonomy‚ which structures the vocabulary
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Teaching Cohesion in Translation (Applied Linguistics) By Haitham Ghazi Al- Mashkoor University of Baghdad College of Education for Women English Department Introduction Language is an expression of culture and individuality of its speakers. It influences the way the speakers perceive the world. This principle has a far-reaching implication fro translation. If language influences thought and culture‚ it means that ultimate translation is impossible. The opposite point of view‚ however
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the record. Information is entered into the symbol table at various times. Keywords are entered initially. The lexical analyzer looks up sequences of letters and digits in the symbol table to determine if a reserved keyword or a name has been collected. With this approach‚ keywords must be in the symbol table before lexical analysis begins. Alternatively‚ if lexical analyzer intercepts reserved keywords‚ they should be entered into the symbol table with a warning of their possible
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A SIMPLE RULE-BASED PART OF SPEECH Eric TAGGER Brill * Department of Computer Science University of Pennsylvania P h i l a d e l p h i a ‚ P e n n s y l v a n i a 19104 brill~unagi.cis.upenn.edu ABSTRACT Automatic part of speech tagging is an area of natural language processing where statistical techniques have been more successful than rule-based methods. In this paper‚ we present a simple rule-based part of speech tagger which automatically acquires its rules and tags with
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Equivalence above word level: The lexical patterning will be dealing with falls under two main heading: Collocation Idioms and fixed expression Collocation: - It is the tendency of certain words co-occur regularly in a given language It is the relationship between two words that often go together and if the expression is heard often it becomes glued in our mind Lexical patterning Recurrent patterns in the language When it comes to equivalence across languages we will find for instance
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The Course of Theoretical Grammar Seminar 1. Theoretical Grammar and its Subject. General Principles of the Grammar Analysis 1. The subject of theoretical grammar. The scope of linguistics. 2. The grammatical structure of the English language. Morphology and syntax as two main parts of grammar. 3. Language as a system and structure. The dichotomy of language and speech. Different approaches to the language study. 4. Characteristics of the language levels and their units. 5. Systemic relations
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modification ( * Hold your restless horses)‚ and topicalization ( *The bucket Sam kicked) cannot occour with the idiomatic meaning being retained. The third criterion is the lack of substitutability in idioms‚ their ‘ lexical integrity’ (Fernando and Flavell 1981:38); synonymous lexical items cannot be substituted in an idiom‚ as in have a crush on ‚ but not *have a smash on (Bussmann 1996: 216)‚ nor can elements be reversed or deleted. Idioms are‚ therefore‚ syntagmatically and paradigmatically fixed
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