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The methods of spatial statistics have been successfully applied to the study of linguistic variation, especially for detecting the existence of spatial patterns in the geographical distribution of linguistic features. However, the use of local indicators of spatial autocorrelation for detecting spatial clusters have been limited to continuous variables, and we propose to apply the new method of Anselin and Li (2019) for categorical variables to linguistic data. We illustrate this method with the case of Japanese rendaku , or sequential voicing, whose dialectal variation is still poorly documented. Focusing on regional differences in the frequency of rendaku, we examined the occurrence of rendaku for four lexemes in 4,921 place names from all Japan. A statistical analysis of local spatial association and an unsupervised density-based cluster analysis revealed the existence of two cluster areas of high rendaku frequency centered around Wakayama and Fukushima-Yamagata prefectures. This suggests that rendaku is more frequent in those dialects, and we recommend that further studies in the dialectal variation of rendaku start by looking at those areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes the archaic linguistic features of the Old Bulgarian translation of the apocryphal Journey of Agapius to Paradise (The Narration of our father Agapius). Examples demonstrating a literal translation from Greek and the difficulties experienced by translators are considered. In the language of the monument, attention is drawn to the features inherent in the entire Old Bulgarian period, for example, the use of uncontracted forms of imperfect and adjectives, the primordal forms of participles on *-ius-, as well as to some unique lexemes. The handwritten tradition of the Narration of Agapius also reflects a number of features characteristic of the earliest stage of Bulgarian writing (late 9th – early 10th century), in particular the use of a root aorist. Especially important are the examples that testify to the glagolitic nature of the initial translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines the terminology related to demons in Jubilees. It argues that important nuances have been lost in the process of translation. Specifically, it argues that the original Hebrew of Jubilees always used רוחות to refer to demons. It reexamines cases in which the Ethiopic and/or Latin translations would appear to contradict this conclusion (i.e., Jub. 7:27; 10:1–2) in light of textual evidence from the Book of Asaf, the Byzantine chronicler Syncellus, and the Book of Watchers. In the case of Jub. 1:10–11 and 22:16–17, it is argued that the original Hebrew read שׁדים , but that this signified non-existent foreign gods (not demons), as the lexeme does in Psalm 106:37, the text to which both passages allude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution intends to examine the lexical universe of oil, while paying attention both to production practices (expressions, terms, etc., which are directly related to the production of oil, from the harvest to the packaging phase) and to commercialization practices or expressions etc. used to represent the product from an organoleptic and gustatory point of view. The terminological and phraseological analysis is anticipated by a reflection on the relationship between technical language and phraseology and on the presence of the lexeme Öl in the German language. Excerpts from specialist websites are used to carry out the first terminological and phraseological analysis (concerning the production of oil); the second part of the analysis (product marketing) is carried out by taking the product's descriptions (different types of oil) of websites into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The dynamism of a language is sustained by the flexible and receptive character at the lexico-semantic level. An important contribution to the development and enrichment of the current vocabulary is made not only by the lexemes of English origin (Anglicisms), but also by the derivatives produced from them. Integrated in the Romanian linguistic system, the newly created elements become authentic structural and functional units. In the present study, the author selected and analyzed a series of English words with extended circulation in the specialized languages and their lexical family, which they constitute/ complete in the meantime with units formed on Romanian territory. Most of the examined terms are recorded in the recent lexicographical works, but there are also words that circulate only in the mass media, in various fields of public activity and in the colloquial style, demonstrating the linguistic creativity and inventiveness of the users.

Translation debates have continued to be passionately argued. The study of the connection between philosophy and translation on the one hand and ambiguity in translation on the other hand have both been growing. The connection between philosophy and translation is unavoidable and inevitable. Notwithstanding, philosophers have not tackled the question of translation directly; translation in general has been tackled indirectly by some philosophers. Ambiguity in translation is a fertile field to investigate. Translation of some written sentences is problematic since they are translated from different contexts in culture. This paper aims to (1) study the connection between philosophy and translation on the one hand, and then (2) connect the philosophical interpretation of ambiguous sentences and their effect on the translation from English into Arabic. This paper also aims at (3) discussing the question that is hissing in the translator's mind in order to translate an ambiguous sentence: whether to lean on syntactic or semantic dis-ambiguation. As a result, this paper hypothesizes that lexemes meaning, interpretation, and thus translation is not only sentence bound but clear cotext and context bound. Therefore, to test this hypothesis, in my research, the study selects some sentences from some research and dictionaries which are believed to be ambiguous. The examples I have selected may not cover all ambiguous English sentences, for ambiguous sentences are still turning up, however, I have tried to cover frequently used sentences. I will look at some common difficulties in the interpretation of lexical items. Then, the ambiguity of these sentences will be removed by using these sentences with the same ambiguous lexemes in clear cotext and context. After removing the ambiguity, the sentences will be translated into Arabic to show the impact of both cotext and context on translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

School equipment has not been a common object of interest for dialectologists and therefore this article focuses on two issues that have not been discussed to date, i.e. names of an item used for removing marks made by a pencil and a verb for sharpening a pencil, crayon, etc. The research material is the data collected by means of an online survey. The geography of the analysed lexemes, their presence in selected lexicographic sources and origin is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents more than 300 semantic units being names of women used in the area of Warmia and Masuria in the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century in traditional rural communities. It discusses the semantic diversity of particular groups of lexemes, presents their number, and indicates the extralinguistic reasons which caused the growth of the number of feminine names within certain semantic fields. It also confronts certain specialised sets of lexemes, e.g. the names of unmarried women, with their male counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Individual differences in cognitive abilities are ubiquitous across the spectrum of proficient language users. Although speakers differ with regard to their memory capacity, ability for inhibiting distraction, and ability to shift between different processing levels, comprehension is generally successful. However, this does not mean it is identical across individuals; listeners and readers may rely on different processing strategies to exploit distributional information in the service of efficient understanding. In the following psycholinguistic reading experiment, we investigate potential sources of individual differences in the processing of co-occurring words. Participants read modifier-noun bigrams like absolute silence in a self-paced reading task. Backward transition probability (BTP) between the two lexemes was used to quantify the prominence of the bigram as a whole in comparison to the frequency of its parts. Of five individual difference measures (processing speed, verbal working memory, cognitive inhibition, global-local scope shifting, and personality), two proved to be significantly associated with the effect of BTP on reading times. Participants who could inhibit a distracting global environment in order to more efficiently retrieve a single part and those that preferred the local level in the shifting task showed greater effects of the co-occurrence probability of the parts. We conclude that some participants are more likely to retrieve bigrams via their parts and their co-occurrence statistics whereas others more readily retrieve the two words together as a single chunked unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the identification of relevant parameters of differentiation for the close emotion concepts envy and jealousy based on the analysis of their names profiles in the iWeb web corpus. The corpus-based research methodology included comparison of (1) the definitions of the lexemes jealousy and envy, (2) the semantic content of conceptual metaphors representing envy and jealousy, and (3) these concepts according to intensity and evaluation parameters. The study of corpus data allowed us to obtain objective results, and also to claim that this method may be an alternative to another corpus-based one, MPA, as its analytical tools are simpler but no less reliable than those of MPA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the criticism of the translation of Constantine's Proglas, this study contains an argument advocating a new translation of the Old Slavonic fragment ï... ("ot ognja goreshtago"). When applying our proposal, taking into account the micro-stylistics, the semantics of the word combination with the lexeme fire will change thanks to the epithet from the simple semantics of the property of fire to an anthropologically relevant expression, naming the human condition, i.e. in the Slovak translation the whole expression will sound mučivého ohňa (tormenting fire). We identify the attribute in Old Slavic as a present active participle, which can be declined as an adjective. Such a translation is also supported by the relation of the expression with the verb ..., which occurs seven times in the paschal sermon of St. John Chrysostom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the self-image and image of so-called "Querdenker" - one of the groups demonstrating against the Corona pandemic measures in Germany since 2020 or generally questioning existing power structures. The remarkably frequent explicit thematization of the term "Querdenker" by all actors in this discourse suggests that its meaning has become controversial and needs to be "renegotiated". Based on an analysis of large text corpora, individual (selected) components of meaning of the lexeme "Querdenker" are detected. With the help of frame analysis, the connection between individual elements can then be revealed and the complex "knowledge frame" activated by the signal lexeme can be reconstructed. Furthermore, the aim is to understand how (and why) discourse actors attempt to "frame" their own actions through the appropriation of this signal lexeme and how and why other discourse actors challenge this appropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The exponents of quantitative indefiniteness: Polish kilkanaście and Lithuanian keliolika form a lexical linguistic parallel. The meaning of both lexemes, indicating an approximate value in the range from 11 to 19 inclusive, is sporadically noted in natural languages. All examples of the use of these forms extracted from known multilingual parallel corpora or Polish-Lithuanian language pair were subjected to a contrastive analysis. The aim was to determine whether the convergence of the dictionary meanings of the two lexemes is reflected in the use of these forms in mutually corresponding Polish and Lithuanian sentences/segments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The meaning or derivation of the lexeme Šaddāy remains a topic with little to no consensus in modern scholarship. Most studies done on Šaddāy lean strongly on etymological arguments to support whatever derivative is argued for. The result is that the pragmatic role of Šaddāy , in whichever biblical book, is often neglected. In particular, the pragmatic role of Šaddāy in the book of Job has not been adequately examined. With a pragmatic analysis in mind, this article hopes to achieve the following: Firstly, for a review of gaps in the relevant literature, a short overview of studies related to the lexeme Šaddāy will be given, which includes etymological studies, philological studies, religious-historical studies, as well as contextual, and comparative studies. Secondly, a description of substratum text studies will be given, and an analysis of the pragmatic role of Šaddāy in the book of Job. The methods involved for this analysis include linguistic and literary-critical. Lastly, this study will look at how this approach can change our understanding of the possible conceptualisations of Šaddāy. Contribution: Firstly, this article contributes to the discussion of the pragmatic roles of Šaddāy and other deities that appear in the book of Job. Secondly, this article is also particularly applicable to the interpretation of the nature of the godhead or early pantheon in the substratum text of Job. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the lexically parallel English and German constructions can't stand somebody/something and jemanden/etwas nicht ausstehen können "not tolerate (someone or something)", from synchronic, diachronic, and quantitative perspectives. Syntactic and semantic restrictions suggest that the usage of stand and ausstehen in the relevant sense is older than other semantically similar verbs (e.g. English tolerate, German leiden), while quantitative evidence from corpora shows that the can't stand and nicht ausstehen können constructions are both colligationally stronger than lexical competitors. Evidence from the history of stand indicates that the lexeme stand in the Germanic and other Indo-European languages has a long history of being employed in the relevant sense. The restrictions on usage and the colligational strength of the respective English and German constructions are thus argued to result from the antiquity of the construction and functional competition from other lexemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Modern Uyghur language has a large number of lexemes copied from Chinese in different periods of Uyghur. Amongst them, there is a special group of lexemes globally copied from Chinese first into the Old Uyghur literary language which is documented in the texts written in various scripts from the 8th to the 14th centuries. Some of these global lexical copies were transmitted to the next stages of Uyghur and are established in Modern Uyghur as part of its lexicon. This paper discusses aspects of this special group of lexemes from the four points, semantic reinterpretation, fusion in form and meaning, multiple copying of the same lexeme, and additions to the lexicon. The aim is to illustrate some important aspects of the historical Sino-Uyghur linguistic and cultural contact reflected in these copies and to provide Uyghur examples to understand aspects of diachronic development of copied lexemes in the recipient language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the cognitive study of the conceptual field of the English language aphorism. The methodology of the cognitive analysis of the textual concepts has been proposed and applied for the study of the means of verbalization of concept WISDOM in English aphorisms. Based on the application of the proposed methodology of the cognitive study of English-language aphorisms, it can be stated that the concept WISDOM has the following constituents: 1) conceptual, the scope of which is much wider than reflected in dictionaries: «wisdom is the possession of knowledge», «wisdom is common sense», «wisdom is the ability to make spiritual sense of life», «wisdom as freedom from feelings», wisdom is sophistication», «wisdom is the heritage of the age», «wisdom is an aphorism»; 2) figurative, which is represented by figurative metaphors: «wisdom is power», «wisdom is knowledge of the truth», «wisdom is self-demanding», «wisdom is moral impeccability», «wisdom is modesty», «wisdom is freedom»; 3) valuable, represented mainly by a positive and exalted assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents the discussion on tracing the diachronic development of the lexeme "patrimoine" (heritage). Topics include dictionaries are not only indispensable lexicographic references but also exceptional historical and cultural heritage; and exploring shifts in its semantic range, nuances, and connotations.

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The borrowing mentee occurs in the Polish language mainly in the area concerned with professional development. The noun is semantically close e.g. to the word podopieczny, yet its emotional load seems to be more positive than that of other semantically similar lexemes. The borrowing mentee has not be recorded in dictionaries of Polish yet; its meaning has been discussed based on contextual usages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes Russian phrasal indefinite pronouns: both 1) phraseologized (= collocational), such as koekto ≈ 'someone', Bog znaet kto 'God knows who', kto ugodno 'whoever' or kto by to ni bylo 'no matter who', and 2) free, such as {Ja vstretil} nikto iz tvoix druzej ne dogadaetsja kogo '{I met} none of your friends will guess whom' (a.k.a. syntactic amalgams). Three lexical entries are presented: for the indefinite pronominal lexeme KTO1 ≈ '-body; -one', for the premodifying indefiniteness type marker idiom 'BOG ZNAET' 'God knows', and for the postmodifying indefiniteness type marker particle -TO4 ≈ 'some'. Formal representations of collocational and free phrasal indefinite pronouns at three levels of linguistic representation (semantic, deep-syntactic and surfacesyntactic) are given, as well as rules for constructing both types of pronouns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the notion of predicate in the sense of an element structuring the sentence at the surface level, G. Gross arrives at an interpretation of linguistic facts that is valid for those who adopt the concept of semantic predicate as a tool for analysis. It belongs to the abstract level of meaning and is considered to be an essential part of the mechanism for disambiguation and selecting the meaning of lexemes or grammatical structures. This mechanism is particularly important in the context of machine translation where it is necessary to choose, in the bilingual transfer dictionary, the accurate equivalent of a polysemic lexeme in the target language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the localization of food- and drink-related items in The Witcher 3 (2015). It analyzes the original English and Arabic versions using the corpus approach. A list of food- and drink-related lexemes was extracted from the English original game and these lexemes were traced to their context in the English and Arabic versions using the concordance function in Sketch Engine. The concordance analysis focused on the translation strategies adopted to localize food- and drink-related lexemes into Arabic and on the success of the translation in the socio-cultural and religious contexts of the target culture. The data reveals that foreign food-related terms are mostly domesticated, whereas drink-related terms are foreignized. The findings of this study suggest that foreignization strategies can be used for localization purposes to create a target video game that minimizes the cultural gaps between the source and target cultures and provides a less disruptive gaming experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Located within an interpretivist paradigm, this study seeks to demonstrate the similarities in orthography between Turkish and Mauritian Creole with regard to the presence in both of these languages of lexemes that do not have only the same pronunciation and orthography but bear the same or approximate semantic value in most cases. These similarities constitute an element of intrigue, as Turkish and Mauritian Creole are not cognate languages. Yet, this study invites a reflection on the interconnection through mutual intelligibility, of these remote languages which are geographically located far apart from each other, one on the European and Asian border and the other in the Indian Ocean. The researcher adopts a synchronic approach to analyse aspects of both Turkish and Mauritian Creole with regard to their respective lexicons. An International Phonetic Alphabet presentation illustrates the common sound patterns justifying the orthography of each language in the context of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents the characteristics and analysis of expressive words motivated by the names of places: Brussels, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Kraków, Radom and Kraśnik. The cities with the highest participation in public discourse were selected. These lexemes, apart from their basic meaning, gained secondary meanings, often created as a result of metonymization, stereotyping, and the consolidation of negative associations or connotations. The collected material was grouped and presented in word-formative nests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attempts to create a cognitive definition of the meaning of the Polish lexeme koronaparty on the basis of experimental data obtained among Polish students through a survey. The experiment was conducted in February 2021. Fifty students took part in it. First, they answered the question: What do you think the word koronaparty means? Second, they built sentences including the koronaparty lexeme. As a result, 53 responses were obtained and 46 sentences were made with the use of the koronaparty lexeme. The collected data allowed for the preparation of a synthetic cognitive definition of the meaning of the word. The categorial semantic feature of the koronaparty is the occurrence of the event during the pandemic. The meaning of koronaparty may include as follows: 1."social gathering at high risk of developing Covid-19: with the participation of people infected with Covid-19, without sanitation requirements and restrictions / usually secret / live"; 2."social gathering during which sanitary requirements and restrictions are respected: open and live, e.g. a wedding with a limited number of people, going to the theatre or to a concert with a face mask and social distance, etc."; 3."online social gathering (via Zoom, Skype, FaceTime etc.), official cultural event (e.g. concert, performance, etc.) or private gathering such as watching movies and/or drinking alcohol together". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article takes a closer look at the partitive genitive constructions in Latvian, their structure, semantics, and syntactic functions. With the help of a corpus analysis, an attempt has been made to find out what determines gender and number agreement variations between the partitive genitive constructions in subject position and the predicate, if it comprises a declinable participle. Attention was paid to such features as subject animacy, voice of the predicate, word order (SV / VS), quantifier lexeme and grammatical number of the genitive. 320 examples with partitive genitive constructions were selected from The Balanced Corpus of Modern Latvian LVK2018, including such quantifier lexemes as daļa 'part', skaits 'number', vairums 'quantity', vairākums 'majority', puse 'half', daudzums 'amount / quantity', lērums 'bagful', simts 'hundred', tūkstotis 'thousand', daudz 'much/many', maz 'little / few'. The best results are given by the combination of values 'animate', 'active' and 'SV', in which 93.24% of the examples are partitive genitive agreement. Data analyzed so far suggest that quantifiers involving the semantic element of partitivity (e.g., daļa 'part') favor partitive genitive agreement, whereas quantifiers lacking this semantic element favor quantifier agreement. This is an exploratory quantitative study on agreement tendencies in Latvian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the separate areas is the study of the text of classical works of art in World linguistics from an etymological, statistical point of view, including the perfect study of their lexical-semantic properties in diachron and synchronous aspect. When determining the place of lexemes used in classical sources, it is important to divide these units into lexical-semantic groups, show the historical progress of vocabulary units, study methodological features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is investigating speech parts and adverbial lexemes study in Turkic linguistics. Most linguists divide the parts of speech into significant and auxiliary in full accordance with the tradition of Russian linguistics. Official words are defined as having predominantly grammatical functions, characterized by the absence of direct subject correlation, reduced phonetically. Official words classification is also applicable for syntactic criterion. Categorical, grammatical meanings exist based on word lexical meaning, where semantic feature is the leading part. Morphological features present in the English language are not all parts of speech, considering the syntactic function features. Detailed analysis of lexico-semantic properties and morphological peculiarities of adverbs in some separate Turkic languages were described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]