Johnny Cash. Upon boarding an airplane, I turned around, and there he was—the “Man in Black” (truly dressed in black and carrying a black guitar case). I asked for his autograph and, in the absence of a scrap of paper, had him sign my boarding pass only to have that part immediately taken away by the airline clerk. Seeing what was happening, he again signed the little part of the boarding pass ...

My aim in this paper is to survey what Greek and Roman grammarians had to say about the syntax and semantics of motion complexes — that is, syntagmatic units comprising a motion verb and a spatial adverbial. This topic involves a number of research areas that are much studied today, such as the linguistic representation of the structure of events, and the so-called “syntax-semantics interface.”...

After a brief discussion of Markov Evolution Formula (MEF) expressed in Probability Bracket Notation (PBN), its close relation with the joint probability distribution (JPD) of Visible Markov Models (VMM) is demonstrated by introducing Markov State Chain Projector (MSCP). The state basis and the observed basis are defined in the Sequential Event Space (SES) of Hidden Markov Models (HMM). The JPD...

Semitic word formation has proved particularly contentious over the past several years with respect to the notion of the 'root' and 'template'. While traditional grammarians viewed Semitic words as consisting of roots and patterns (involved in paradigmatic relations), this approach has proved insufficient for certain kinds of word-formation that appear to require correspondence between words, s...

At the pinnacle of his career, Professor Charcot had four secretaries: Charles Féré, Pierre Marie, Georges Gilles de la Tourette and Georges Guinon. They helped the great founder of neurology with his activities at La Salpêtrière Hospital and his private clinic, examining patients before he made the final diagnosis.

Generative grammarians have relied on introspective intuitions of well-formedness as their primary source of data. The overreliance on this one type of data and the unsystematic manner in which they are collected cast doubt on the empirical basis of a great deal of syntactic theorizing. These concerns are illustrated with examples and one more detailed case study, concerning the English verb-pa...

This study deals with a summary of the word "Ṭūbā" in Holy Qur'an, clarifying meaning contained therein. Also, it aims to show its linguistic, morphological, and grammatical aspects as well diverging opinions explainers, linguists, grammarians this regard. The ends final sentiment according what researcher reached throughout exploration.
 Keywords: Ṭūbā, tree, paradise, desirable condition

if we take ibn malik as the connecting chain of the interconnected history of syntax, we will find him among the last analytic scholars and theorist grammarians, since in his era, the principles of syntax has been established and grammarians didn’t provide new ideas. but discussion of ibn malik’s innovative syntactic approaches is important because of two reasons. due to his authoritative posit...