How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
Building on the momentum enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches within Classics, this volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in both Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories developed in cognitive linguistics, revealing the role of human embodiment in determining the meanings of various linguistic phenomena.
The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities.
One of the hardest problems in science is the symbol grounding problem, a question that has intrigued philosophers and linguists for more than a century. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the question has become very actual, especially within the field of robotics. The problem is that an agent, be it a robot or a human, perceives the world in analogue signals. Yet humans have the abilit…
Byzantine rule in southern Italy came to an end in the late eleventh cen- tury. Reggio in Calabria and Bari in Apulia, the last Byzantine strongholds in the two areas on the Italian peninsula, fell to the Normans in 1060 and 1071, respectively.1 However, Greek culture was preserved in these areas in 156 157 Enrichment of the Medical Vocabulary in the Greek-Speaking Medieval Communities of S…
Vocabulary knowledge has long been recognized as an essential component of reading comprehension and is a contributing factor for using reading as means of learning. Vocabulary can and does impact meaningful comprehension of text for struggling through accomplished readers. Simply put, readers who know the meaning to the words they encounter when reading a text are more likely to comprehend…
Ketika kita ingin membangun rumah, kita menggunakan beton untuk membuat fondasi, batu bata untuk membuat dinding, kusen jendela untuk membuat jendela, kusen pintu untuk membuat pintu, dan semen untuk menggabungkan mereka semua. Setiap elemen rumah memiliki pekerjaannya sendiri. Bagian-bagian Pidato seperti "elemen bangunan" bahasa. Mereka terbiasa membangun kalimat. Buku ini ditulis dan terbit …