In Construction Morphology (CM), a compound is treated as a construction at the word level with a systematic correlation between its form and meaning, in the sense that any change in the form is accompanied by a change in the meaning. Compound words are coined by compounding templates which are called abstract schemas in CM. These abstract constructional schemas generalize over sets of existing...

A person who knows a word knows much more than its meaning and pronunciation. The contexts in which a word can be used to express a particular meaning are a critical component of word knowledge. The ability to exploit context in order to determine meaning and resolve potential ambiguities is not a uniquely linguistic ability, but it is dramatically illustrated in the ease with which native spea...

In recent years, some people, comparing the word “Ahmad” in a Quranic verse speaking of Jesus’ prophecy about Prophet Muhammad (Qur'an 61:6) with the word “Paraclete” in the Gospel of John (14:26, etc.), have tried to make a connection between them. They have ascribed to Muslims (and even to the Prophet himself) the idea that the word “Paraclete” is a distorted form of the word “periclete</...

A word may have more than one meaning or sense (polysemous). For instance, the word “light” may have a meaning of “a source of lighting or illumination” as in “Turn off the light”. It can also have a meaning of “not heavy” as in “My new phone is small and light”. The meaning can usually be differentiated or disambiguated by observing the context where the word is used. In a written text or sent...

Sound symbolism– non-arbitrary correspondences between the sound of a word and its meaning– exists cross-linguistically and facilitates listeners’ ability to infer the meaning of foreign words. However, the specificity of these mappings remains unclear. The present study investigated whether sound symbolic properties correspond only to a specific meaning domain or to other semantic dimensions a...

meaning of the word which based on the context is one of the hermeneutic rules. according to these rules, every context has a central meaning that the author has intended. as well, commentators of the text have to know this central meaning. after the revelation of the holy qur&apos;an, some words of the qur&apos;an have found new meaning. some of the commentators of the qur&apos;an attribute th...

Although numerous examples of sound symbolism exist in spoken language, little is known about whether listeners recognize and utilize these non-arbitrary relationships between sound and meaning to guide their interpretation of novel words. The present experiments examined the extent to which listeners are able to constrain meaning solely on the basis of the segmental sound structure of language...

The empirical study of language has historically relied heavily upon concrete word stimuli. By definition, concrete words evoke salient perceptual associations that fit well within feature-based, sensorimotor models of word meaning. In contrast, many theorists argue that abstract words are "disembodied" in that their meaning is mediated through language. We investigated word meaning as distribu...