The Hebrew Synonyms שׁקֵּבִּ and שׁרַדָּ

The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and near-synonyms

If we want to describe the action of someone who is looking out a window for an extended time, how do we choose between the words gazing, staring, and peering? What exactly is the difference between an argument, a dispute, and a row? In this paper, we describe our research in progress on the problem of lexical choice and the representations of world knowledge and of lexical structure and meanin...

The Semantic and Stylistic Diierentiation of Synonyms and Near-synonyms

Synonyms and Historical Annotations

Chapter 4. Lissencephaly, Type I 35 DEFINITION Lissencephaly, derived from the Greek works “lissos” meaning smooth and “enkephalos” which means brain, is a descriptive term defining a class of human cerebral malformations characterized by the agyric surface of the brain. In fact, most cases of lissencephaly do not have a complete loss of gyri; often the most ventral and medial gyri are relative...

Element and Radical: the Divergence of Synonyms

The nouns “element” and “radical” are prominent words in the chemist’s vocabulary. That their meanings nowadays are radically different is a fact that is elementary to all, yet, given their prominence, it is striking that a millennium ago they were virtually synonyms. By the late eighteenth century, Lavoisier and his colleagues had assigned them different denotations. Given the fundamental stat...

The Hebrew FrameNet Project

We present the Hebrew FrameNet project, describe the development and annotation processes and enumerate the challenges we faced along the way.