The field of linguistics has always been reliant on language data, since that is its principal object of study. One of the major obstacles that linguists encounter is finding data relevant to their research. In this paper, we propose a three-stage approach to help linguists find relevant data. First, language data embedded in existing linguistic scholarly discourse is collected and stored in a ...

The Linguist’s Assistant (LA) is a practical computational paradigm for describing languages. In this paper we describe how to use LA with naturally occurring texts that exemplify interesting target-language linguistic phenomena. We will describe how such texts can be semantically analyzed using a convenient semi-automatic document authoring interface, in effect adding them to LA’s standard sem...

some linguists believe that word in arabic language was initially based on one syllabus; orators have changed them according to the special countries, tribes and societies. they have contrived special acumen for any prefixes, suffixes and affixes addition. some other linguists believed that word was initially formed based on three letters, and thus different accents and languages were ramified ...

For the benefit of linguists new to the field of language evolution, the author sets out the issues that need to be distinguished in any research on it. He offers a guided tour of contemporary approaches, including the work of linguists (Bickerton, Carstairs-McCarthy, Chomsky, Hurford, Jackendoff, Pinker, Wray), animal behaviour experts (Dunbar, Hauser, Premack, Savage-Rumbaugh), neurophysiolog...

Humans communicate using language, but they also communicate using gesture - spontaneous movements of the hands and body that universally accompany speech. Gestures can be distinguished from other movements, segmented, and assigned meaning based on their forms and functions. Moreover, gestures systematically integrate with language at all levels of linguistic structure, as evidenced in both pro...

the category of verbal participation is one of the subjects being studied by the linguists, esp. in semantics. in this vesearch, it has been tried to investigate the old approaches toward this phenomenon in the arabic language and philology. in modem semantics it is called as polysemy. here the polysemy and its technical terms has been scientifically defined. the similarities and differences ha...

For more than a century after Darwin’s Origin of Species, linguists said little about the origins of human speech. In the past 30 years, however, some linguists and evolutionary biologists have proposed descriptions of the roles of gestures, the vocal apparatus, cognition, syntax, and social interaction in the emergence of language. This paper summarizes some of their claims, especially those t...