Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to mean by them every day. Applying Darwin's theory of "unconscious artificial selection" to the evolution of linguistic conventions, Daniel Cloud suggests a new, evolutionary explanation for the rich, complex, and continually reinvented meanings of our words.
Al-Mawrid Al-Hadeeth - A Modern English-Arabic Dictionary
Al-Mawrid Al-Hadeeth is the foremost English-Arabic dictionary, which has become a household name in the Arab world. It is a fully updated version of al-Mawrid, embracing thousands of new entries, new meanings of earlier vocabulary, and a host of idiomatic expressions.
This book presents a stage in the evolution of a theory of modality meanings and forms. It covers exclusively complements. There are two questions that this book addresses. Can one find a small, finite set of meanings which systematically underlies the enormous variety of meanings found in complements? And can one make any predictions from this set of meanings about the variety of forms they take? The answer to both questions is yes.
“Phrasal verbs” are two word verbs with meaning beyond the individual words. Generally a verb and a preposition, meanings can vary even when the verb is the same.
How Words Mean: Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models, and Meaning Construction
introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning. It does so by addressing the interaction between non-linguistic concepts and the meanings encoded in language.
