synonymy is a common phenomenon among different languages. the linguists of the world have had various views about it. thus, first this issue is put to survey among arabic linguists and then its scope in the holy qur’ān is discussed. the phenomenon of synonymy has its proponents and opponents, each having their own reasons. this disagreement stems from the lack of a comprehensive and exclusive ...

The present investigation sought to expand our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the recognition of antonyms and to evaluate whether these processes differed in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls. Antonymy is the most robust of the lexico-semantic relations and is relevant to both the mental organization of the lexicon and the organization of coherent discours...

The ‘prohibitionist’ idea that slurs have the same linguistic properties as their neutral counterparts hasn’t received much support in literature. Here I offer a modified version of prohibitionism, according to which taboo on using is part conventional meaning. conclude with explanations behaviour embedded constructions.

We combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relations and the degree of entrenchment and routinization of antonymic word-pairs in memory.

most of the linguists and grammarians accepted the synonymy. the cause that made us deal with it again is achievement new accomplishments. beyond doubt, results that we harvested are important to understand the quran and hadiths. in this paper we want through discussion synonyms that sheikh alisaghir and the others referred to those show the points of difference and agreement.

This paper investigates the treatment of antonymy in Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary (2003) in order to find out what kinds of headwords are provided with antonyms as part of their definitions and also discusses the principles for antonym inclusion in the entries. CCALED includes canonical antonyms such as good/bad and dead/alive, as well as more contextually restricted pa...