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In his work entitled On the Characteristics of Animals (VII 47), Claudius Aelianus discusses numerous Ancient Greek names of wild animals, especially their young. He registers as many as 18 different appellatives referring to young animals as well as ten poetic or dialectal terms for mature ones. The aim of the present study is to analyze the Ancient Greek words denoting young animals quoted by the...
Mongolian is an adhesive language. Its word-formation and configuration is built through the stem is connected to different suffixes. In theory, Mongolian vocabulary is unlimited, so the dictionary can not encompass all of the words and their numerous morphological changes. Development of independent, efficient lexical analyzing software to identify and generate the words and their morphological changes...
Enantiosemy describes a situation in which a lexical unit acquires opposing meanings as a result of long-term semantic development. In this article, using several examples from Old Czech, I show how the enantiosemic status of words results from the development of lexical units or (sub-)systems. In the first example, the verb ublížit (to harm) has gained (on the background of words blízký, bližní,...
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