This paper is concerned with noun incorporation (NI) in Chukchi, a Kamchatkan language spoken in Siberia. The data discussed are taken from two papers on this subject, namely Polinsky (1990) and Spencer (1995). This amount of data is of course extremely restricted, but I attempt to give an insight into the phenomenon and its theoretical solution rather than discuss it thoroughly on the basis of...

â  â  educational values and their role in children's stories â  study of kamel al-keilani's stories â â â  â  hossein kiyanee * â  boshra sadat mirghaderi ** â  â  abstract â  â  children are mirrors of the society. so, attention must be paid to them and their literature to instil educational values to them in the form of beautiful pictures of the literature. â  the stories are the b...

The topic of this paper is a kind of morphological structure that looks as if it might be formed within the syntax: Noun Incorporation. This is a feature of a wide range of languages, including (in its purest form) Mohawk, Chuckchee, Southern Tiwa, Classical Nahuatl, and many others; and it has attracted attention for quite some time. Adopting a classical formulation, Noun Incorporation is a co...

one of the most important reasons for the success of literary figure is his sufficient use of story elements such as characterization, plot, point of view, symbols. this study critically analyses the different literary elements in naguib mahfouz’s famous collection of short stories, “the infamous house” consisting of 18 stories.  at first, we offer a definition of the short story as a genre and...

in contemporary arabic literature recalling of quranic characters as the using of characters, events or historical periods in literary works are considered as the latest levels of connection between contemporary literature and his heritage. holy quran is one of the sources which its characters and stories have been used a lot in literature and this has resulted in the enrichment of literature. ...

of the most outstanding features of iranian folk stories, which had not been precisely scrutinized, are their meaningful deep links with the archetypes in the stories of the prophets, and the reiteration or reproduction of the events of their lives. in such context, three types of roles can be considered for the prophets in these stories are: 1) their active and leading role in the process of t...

This study investigated the amount of incidental vocabulary learning through comprehension-focused reading of short stories and explicit instruction to this goal.  Forty male high school students were selected randomly, and divided into two groups of twenty.  One group of these students was given five 400-word-level short stories to read with the purpose of comprehension, and the students in th...