Multi-word lexical units are a typical feature of specialized dictionaries, in particular monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The paper studies the concept of the multi-word lexical unit and considers the similarities and differences of their selection and presentation in monolingual and bilingual maritime dictionaries. The work analyses such issues as the classification of multi-w...

Different functions have been proposed for the hand gestures speakers spontaneously produce while speaking. The Information Packaging Hypothesis (Kita, 2000) states that gestures can structure rich spatio-motoric information into packages suitable for speaking. It therefore predicts that how information is divided over different gestures affects how it is divided over different processing units...

Embick (2004) has recently challenged the widely held view that English resultative participles (or adjectival passives) are formed in the lexicon while (verbal) passives are built syntactically (a proposal originally formalized in Wasow 1977; see also Bresnan 1982, Levin and Rappaport 1986, and many others). Instead, Embick argues for a syntactic analysis to explain why only certain arguments ...

among the most common type of literary, aesthetic and lyric literature by having the elements and themesimagery provides a good platform to analyze the structure of the word external and internal relationships because relationships based on the form and structure of speech is considered so by what is in the form of content main purpose of the speaker is the approach to the structure of the styl...