ABSTRACT Through meticulous philological analysis of Arabic, Syriac and Greek lexica, this study posits that Qur’an 61.6–9 manifests a purposeful literary, contextual and etymological engagement with Matthew 12.16–31, proposing a novel interpretation of the qur’anic reference to aḥmad. Surmounting the hitherto common association of aḥmad in Q 61.6 with the Johannine Paraclete discourse, the research contends that the term aḥmad functions not merely as a proper noun or superlative adjective, but as a verbal construction – ‘I [God] praise’ – functioning as a citational echo of the divine declaration in Matthew 12.18: ‘whom I desire, in whom my soul delights’. This specific connection intimates that the qur’anic islām (‘self-surrender to God’) actualizes the Matthean malkūteh da-llāhā (‘the Kingdom of God’), positioning divine sovereignty within the human heart. A salient insight of this Isaianic-Matthean-qur’anic parallelism resides in underscoring the core concept of dīn as ‘divine judgement’, rather than merely ‘religion’, powerfully evoking the semantic domain of dīn in the frequent qur’anic phrase yawm al-dīn (‘the Day of Judgement’). The study furthermore asserts that Sūrat al-Ṣaff’s thematic nexus centres on the ultimate manifestation of ‘the light of God’ and ‘the judgement of truth’, superseding earlier interpretations that prioritized martial exhortation.

Abstract The goal of this paper is to account for the polysemy of Italian simple prepositions ( a , da , di , in ) via the integration of two distinct theoretical perspectives: Semantic Maps and Syntactic Cartography. We show that these prepositions can coexpress several spatial and non-spatial senses, via a detailed study of their distribution in web corpora. We then argue that these senses share a common semantic feature: they all introduce ‘general parthood relations’ between two or more referents in discourse; verbs and complement DPs specify the content of these relations. We propose a cartographic analysis of their structure in which each preposition acts as a single exponent for a cluster of heads and distinct combinations of semantic values. We then offer a semantic maps analysis of these prepositions as coexpressing senses forming a coherent semantic domain, but partitioning this domain via different patterns. We analyse these principles by connecting the maps approach with a compact model-theoretic discussion. We conclude by proposing some considerations on the empirical reach of this integrated method for theories of adpositions and their multi-dimensional polysemy.

Climate change demands not only scientific and political responses but also effective communication in the public sphere. The reportage of climate issues has therefore been under a lot of research, yet few studies have examined how climate change is communicated in Vietnam’s English-language press. This study is an attempt to fill such a gap, applying Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) to a self-compiled corpus of 116 climate-related articles from a major English-language online newspaper in Vietnam – Sai Gon Giai Phong News (SGGP). The analysis identifies four prominent semantic domains: environmental effects, sustainable development, institutional cooperation, and regional specificity. The most frequently constructed values are Eliteness, Impact, and Timeliness, which renders Personalization, Consonance, and Unexpectedness notably infrequent. The qualitative analysis reveals that SGGP frequently frames Vietnam as a proactive and solution-driven actor. However, climate discourse is largely elite-driven, privileging institutional voices while side-lining the perspectives of ordinary citizens. Coverage is also highly localized, with emphasis on the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City. Equally notably, Impact is constructed through a dual narrative of both consequences and future-oriented strategies, portraying Vietnam as vulnerable yet resilient. These findings contribute to the growing literature on DNVA in Southeast Asia and point to the need for more inclusive, people-centred approaches to climate communication in Vietnamese media and beyond.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has primarily focused on explaining model predictions, yet a critical gap remains in explaining semantic structure discovery within knowledge graphs derived from concept maps (CMs). This study extends the OBOE (explanatiOns Based On concEpts) framework to address a fundamentally different problem, explainable domain discovery in knowledge graphs (KGs) classification, moving beyond supervised classification to unsupervised structural explanation. Our approach integrates Knowledge Graph Embeddings (KGEs), clustering algorithms, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in a novel triple role—generating structural explanations, verifying hallucinations, and enabling large-scale evaluation. Concept–relation–concept triples are embedded through KGEs and clustered using hierarchical and spectral methods to reveal semantic domains, with QualIT-inspired LLM prompting via Chain-of-Thought reasoning. Evaluation across three corpora (Amazon, BBC News, and Reuters) demonstrated robust classification with mean per-class errors of 0.1, 0.147, and 0.142, and LogLoss values of 0.236, 0.342, and 0.395, discovering 92 semantic domains across 17 topics. Hierarchical clustering achieved superior performance (mean 3.78/5) with higher relevance, while spectral clustering offered better coverage (3.51/5) through more compact structures. By bridging traditional clustering with LLM-based explanation and evaluation, this work establishes a new XAI paradigm for knowledge organization contexts where understanding semantic graph structure is as critical as classification accuracy.

This paper presents a novel approach to knowledge organization and information retrieval in digital libraries through an adaptive semantic retrieval framework that integrates graph neural networks (GNNs), ontological knowledge structures, and user behavior analysis. Traditional knowledge organization systems often employ static classification methods that inadequately represent multidimensional relationships and fail to adapt to evolving user needs. Our framework addresses these limitations through a unified computational approach that combines formal semantic representations with empirical usage patterns. The system architecture includes ontology-driven knowledge graph construction, multi-relational GNN-based representation learning, comprehensive user behavior modeling, and an adaptive retrieval mechanism that dynamically balances domain semantics with personalized relevance signals. Experimental evaluation across diverse digital library collections demonstrates significant performance improvements, with the integrated framework achieving 81% precision and 85% recall, substantially outperforming conventional retrieval models. The proposed approach enables more intelligent and responsive information discovery while maintaining semantic coherence, offering a promising direction for adaptive knowledge organization that bridges traditional boundaries between formal classification approaches and user-centered design principles.

This study investigates the polysemous Qur’anic verb daraba, a lexeme whose diverse semantic range—from physical striking and traveling to parable-setting and legal-metaphorical usage—poses significant challenges for translators. Focusing on four influential English versions of the Qur’an (Pickthall, Asad, Bakhtiar, and Sahih International), the research applies Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine how translators’ lexical and discursive choices both reflect and reproduce ideological orientations. The analysis categorizes 53 occurrences of daraba into five semantic domains: physical action, parable-setting, traveling, punishment/discipline, and legal/metaphorical usage. The findings reveal that the translators converge on neutral renderings in less contested categories (e.g., traveling), but diverge sharply in sensitive contexts such as Q 4:34, where translation choices range from “scourge” and “strike” to “beat” and “go away.” CDA emphasises that these differences are discursive interventions influenced by gendered, cultural, and theological commitments rather than semantically neutral ones. Asad rationalises meaning through philosophical contextualisation, Bakhtiar reformulates ethically to challenge patriarchal readings, Sahih International simplifies for accessibility in accordance with conservative orthodoxy, and Pickthall maintains a biblical-archaic solemnity. This study shows that Qur'anic translation is a site of ideological negotiation where polysemy becomes a resource for framing authority, ethics, and reform by fusing semantic typology with discourse analysis. The results support translation studies, Qur'anic studies, and discussions about the relationship between language, ideology, and sacred texts.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) significantly affects victims' physical and mental health. Neurocognitive impairments, particularly in executive functioning, are crucial for daily functionality. However, no reviews or meta-analyses have focused on executive function (EF) alterations or the associated mechanisms contributing to a better understanding. This study aimed to synthesize and analyze differences in EF performance between women victims of IPV and non-victims, while also exploring potential mechanisms underlying these specific impairments. A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Searches were performed in the PubMed, Web of Science Core Collection, PsycINFO, and Scopus databases. A random-effects model was employed to calculate pooled effect sizes. A total of 22 studies published between 2002 and 2023 met the inclusion criteria and were included, comprising 1,425 women victims of IPV and non-victims. The meta-analysis revealed moderate to large effects on cognitive flexibility, inhibition, and semantic verbal fluency domains, with IPV victims showing lower performance. Working memory's effect was non-significant. The qualitative synthesis demonstrated poorer phonological verbal fluency, nonverbal fluency, planning, reasoning, decision-making, and working memory. This synthesis also outlined differences observed among women experiencing physical, sexual, and/or psychological abuse, regardless of posttraumatic stress disorder or brain injury (BI). This systematic review and meta-analysis identified specific EF alterations in IPV victims, which may result from BI, psychopathology, or adverse childhood experiences, with their individual contributions requiring exploration in future studies. These findings can inform personalized interventions and decision-making within a legal context.

Contemporary cognitive-linguistic research often seeks to consolidate metaphorical expressions into systematic mappings between source and target domains. However, the formulation of such mappings in natural language remains insufficiently systematized, frequently relying on intuition or on lexical resources that are not available for all languages. In this study, we propose a systematic, semi-automatic approach to source domain identification that enhances transparency, objectivity, and replicability in metaphor analysis while reducing annotator reliance on intuition. We build on an established semantic ontology, bilingual lexical resources, and distributional semantic representations to assign semantic domains to words, which serve as proxies for conceptual source domains. We manually validate the data and quantitatively evaluate the method via automatic metrics. Furthermore, we perform a qualitative evaluation of annotation disagreements and a detailed error analysis. Results indicate that the approach provides a promising foundation for semantic tagging and metaphor analysis in Slovene. The qualitative analysis of disagreements demonstrates how individual linguistic variation and cognitive biases influence domain attribution, and often prevent reaching a complete consensus between annotators. The error analysis further identifies specific limitations of the proposed approach, which arise from gaps in lexical resources and from the inherent properties of distributional semantic modeling. Overall, the findings underscore both the methodological challenges of automatic domain attribution and the cognitive complexity of source domain mapping in metaphor analysis.

Abstract This paper explores evidentials in various dialects of Turkish spoken across Anatolia, scrutinizing their semantic domains, diversity, and evolution paths. The data for analysis consists of fieldwork transcriptions, literary sources, and naturalistic recordings of everyday language. Adopting the definition of evidentiality as the coding of information sources on the proposition, we identified the items as denoting inference and hearsay under indirectivity based on the corpus. Findings show that certain lexical items developed into semi-grammatical evidentials via grammaticalization while the future and postterminal suffixes evolved into grammatical markers by interpreting existing items. The analysis also highlights the distribution of these evidentials, noting that while some remain confined to specific lin-guistic boundaries (isoglosses), others gain broader currency across dialects, pro-pelled by the influences of social media, TV shows, and migratory movements. Consequently, this paper sheds light on the dynamic paths of evidential evolution providing evidence from Turkish dialects, offering insights into the interplay between language change and socio-cultural factors.

A substantial subset of cognitively normal (CN) older adults accumulates high burdens of Periventricular (PVWMH) and Deep White Matter Hyperintensities (DWMH), surrogate neuroimaging-markers of cerebral small-vessel disease, while others have minimal or no white matter hyperintensity (WMH). Using multi-modal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) from National Alzheimer's Coordinating Centre (NACC) (n= 986) and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) (n= 382) cohorts spanning CN, cognitively impaired (CI), and CI with Alzheimer's etiology (CI-AD) aged 50-94years, we investigated whether total WMH burden or specifically PVWMH and DWMH, surpassing a threshold disrupts neuroanatomy and cognition. PVWMH and DWMH volume increased exponentially with age, but PVWMH rose twice as fast, with inflection at 61years. PVWMH > 2.3mL, independent of age, was associated with structural atrophy (rostralmiddlefrontal, pre/postcentral gyri, lingual-gyrus, nucleus-accumbens), global fiber disintegration, and impairments in executive, attentional, semantic domains. DWMH effects were negligible. Longitudinal mixed-models in NACC and ADNI confirmed that PVWMH progression, not DWMH, predicted accelerated atrophy. PVWMH-related neuroanatomic loss mediates cognitive decline. The 2.3mL threshold was validated in ADNI3. While both are visible on routine MRI, only PVWMH demonstrated threshold-dependent effects. Progression to ≥2.3mL marks a threshold, demanding clinical surveillance, vascular-risk management, and recognition of accelerated brain-aging. Neuroimaging-based quantification of PVWMH, combined with domain-specific cognitive testing provides robust measures of clinical surveillance, definitive of brain health.

This study examines the semantic structure and literary usage of English idioms containing color terms (e.g. green with envy, see red, feel blue). Drawing on cognitive semantics, etymological dictionaries, and literary examples, we analyze how colors metaphorically encode emotions and concepts. We compiled a representative set of color idioms from dictionaries and corpora, tracing their origins and meanings. Consistent conceptual metaphors emerge: for example, anger is linked to red, sadness to blue, envy to green, and cowardice to yellow. Shakespeare’s “green-eyed monster” (envy) and modern “green with envy” demonstrate this mapping. Cognitive theory highlights that idioms often rely on conceptual metaphors (e.g. ANGER IS HEAT/RED). We find that many idioms follow distinct syntactic patterns (e.g. “be color with X” or “see/feel color”). Literary examples (from Shakespeare to contemporary novels) show these idioms in context, reinforcing their figurative sense. Our results suggest a coherent mapping between color terms and semantic domains grounded in cultural and physiological associations. The persistence and productivity of color idioms in English underscore how sensory imagery conveys abstract ideas. This analysis contributes to understanding idiom motivation, historical development, and the interplay of metaphor and language in literature and cognition.

This study is about how Chinese loans adapt to position sensitivity of Mosuo (Yongning Na) tones. We examined 167 items from Michaud’s Mosuo Dictionary and calculated the number of tone correspondences across syllable positions and historical strata. The results reveal that (1) tone correspondences display significant patterns conditioned by syllabic position such that initial syllables display more tonal distinctions than subsequent syllables; (2) departures from pattern (1) occur in predictable environments and semantic domains and are thus regular rather than random; (3) different historical strata display different patterns. Chi-square tests show that there are significant associations between source tones, Mosuo categories, and syllable position. The results support recipient-language primacy: i.e., surface patterns reflect Mosuo’s native constraints rather than close relations to Mandarin tones. This study presents a replicable corpus-based approach to the study of tonal contact in morphotonologically complex endangered languages.

Heritage studies often struggle to move beyond descriptive cataloguing toward interpretive frameworks that reveal how artifacts encode cultural meaning. This study applies semantic field theory—originally developed for linguistics—to the collections of the Candi Jiwa Museum in West Java, Indonesia. Through qualitative analysis of artifacts and contextual materials, nine semantic domains were identified, including funerary ritual, architectural symbolism, environmental adaptation, domestic–sacred convergence, and symbolic economy. These findings demonstrate that artifacts function not as inert remnants but as interconnected semiotic systems that sustain continuity, cosmology, and identity values. The study advances two key contributions. Theoretically, it extends semantic field analysis into material culture, showing how objects can be decoded as networks of meaning without reducing their contextual richness. Practically, it repositions museums as pedagogical mediators that engage youth through interpretive dialogue rather than passive display. The results challenge conventional heritage discourse that privileges the authenticity of objects, arguing instead for preservation of semiotic systems as the true foundation of cultural sustainability.

None of the first-order modal logics between $\mathsf{K}$ and $\mathsf{S5}$ under the constant domain semantics enjoys Craig interpolation or projective Beth definability, even in the language restricted to a single individual variable. It follows that the existence of a Craig interpolant for a given implication or of an explicit definition for a given predicate cannot be directly reduced to validity as in classical first-order and many other logics. Our concern here is the decidability and computational complexity of the interpolant and definition existence problems. We first consider two decidable fragments of first-order modal logic $\mathsf{S5}$: the one-variable fragment $\mathsf{Q^1S5}$ and its extension $\mathsf{S5}_{\mathcal{ALC}^u}$ that combines $\mathsf{S5}$ and the description logic$\mathcal{ALC}$ with the universal role. We prove that interpolant and definition existence in $\mathsf{Q^1S5}$ and $\mathsf{S5}_{\mathcal{ALC}^u}$ is decidable in coN2ExpTime, being 2ExpTime-hard, while uniform interpolant existence is undecidable. These results transfer to the two-variable fragment $\mathsf{FO^2}$ of classical first-order logic without equality. We also show that interpolant and definition existence in the one-variable fragment $\mathsf{Q^1K}$ of first-order modal logic $\mathsf{K}$ is non-elementary decidable, while uniform interpolant existence is again undecidable.

Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control one's own cognitive processes, with higher order mechanisms assessing the performance of lower level cognitive operations to determine subjective confidence. An open question is whether metacognitive capacity is domain-general, akin to a conductor overseeing various sections of an orchestra, or whether it is inherently coupled with each domain, resembling a collection of specialized musical directors for each instrument group. Previous studies attempting to address this question have suffered from methodological drawbacks, such as a lack of control over cognitive performance and low statistical power. In this confirmatory, preregistered study, we addressed this gap by testing metacognitive ability in visual perceptual, episodic memory, and semantic memory domains using a newly developed adaptive "trivia" task spanning judgments about nutrition and global economics. We found substantive correlations in metacognitive bias and efficiency across domains, even when controlling for cognitive ability, suggesting up to 15%-20% shared variance in metacognition across different modalities. Surprisingly, however, we found the lowest correlation in metacognition between the two semantic memory domains, despite these tasks being matched on performance and surface-level features. Our results broadly support the existence of a metacognitive "g-factor," excluding several important methodological confounds, while also highlighting the importance of further research into interindividual differences in metacognitive priors which may explain the lower correlations between the different semantic memory domains. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

Although the English way-construction is reported to have expanded its semantic domain by recruiting an increasing number of new verbs over the last two centuries, the general verb make remains the most common predicate in all periods since the construction was first attested. Notwithstanding this central role, its use and behaviour has gone almost unnoticed in the abundant literature on the way-construction in favour of other semantically richer verbs. In order to fill this gap, this study is intended to offer a detailed characterization of the way-construction with make by focusing on two core semantic features: the implication of difficult movement or overcoming of barriers that the construction is argued to convey and its ability to express not only concrete movement but also abstract motion. The analysis of a corpus of more than 4,000 occurrences from the last two hundred years provides evidence that cast doubts on the notion of difficult movement being an integral component of the construction and suggests that this meaning is not its prototypical sense anymore. Additionally, and despite the increase in its token productivity in the last decades, the construction does not seem to be more open to the expression of abstract movement.

Pyramid hierarchical envelope generation structure based collaborative semantic unsupervised domain adaptation

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in healthcare applications, concerns have emerged around the trustworthiness, interpretability, and context-awareness of these systems. Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) hold considerable potential to address these challenges by supporting semantic standardization, explainability, and domain alignment. This study presents a bibliometric analysis of scholarly publications referencing both AI and healthcare concepts to examine how KOS are positioned within this evolving discourse. The findings indicate that while early literature frequently and explicitly referenced KOS—such as ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and classification systems—their visibility has declined relative to newer paradigms such as machine learning and large language models. Nevertheless, KOS-related terms remain conceptually linked to key healthcare domains, including diagnostics, therapeutics, and administration, albeit occupying a more peripheral role in the broader AI research landscape. These terms most often co-occur with topics such as natural language processing, information extraction, and the semantic enrichment of unstructured clinical data. The findings show the continued relevance of KOS in AI-healthcare discourse while highlighting the need for more deliberate alignment between KOS and emerging AI methodologies. Future work should explore frameworks that bridge conceptual presence with technical deployment. KOS may thereby offer critical contributions to the development of transparent, context-sensitive, and ethically grounded AI systems in healthcare.

This article examines the linguistic and cultural encoding of conflictogemes in media discourse based on materials from three linguistic spheres: English-speaking, Russian-speaking and Kazakh-speaking media. The relevance of the study is due to the intensification of conflictogemes in both global and local information space, which contributes to the growing polarization of public consciousness. The primary focus is on the characterization of conflictogems — lexical units capable of provoking conflict and possessing semantic and pragmatic potential to shape public perception of socially significant events. The study substantiates the need for a comparative analysis of media texts in a multilingual and culturally diverse environment. The methodology of research combines critical discourse analysis, component analysis, pragmatic linguistics, and contrastive methods. The empirical database consists of a corpus of 300 media texts (100 in each language) selected according to thematic and regional criteria and published between 2020 and 2024. As a result of the analysis, five key semantic domains of conflictogems were identified: threat, enemy, chaos, security, and provocation. Their dominant stylistic markers (metaphor, hyperbole, euphemism, binary oppositions) and communicative functions (polarization, demonization, mobilization, fear activation, consolidation) were also identified. The results of the study show that each media culture uses different rhetorical strategies: Englishlanguage media emphasize universal values and mobilizing frames; Russian-language sources highlight internal opposition and ideological antagonism; and Kazakh-language discourse focuses on rhetorical stabilization and normative order. Conflictogems function not only as indicators of the political context but also as tools of cultural encoding, reflecting sociocultural values and editorial policy. The study concludes that cross-linguistic analysis of conflict rhetoric makes it possible to identify the underlying cognitive and pragmatic mechanisms of audience influence. The results obtained have practical significance for media linguistics, sociolinguistics, political discourse analysis, and intercultural communication.

The relevance of the research is determined by the society’s need to preserve and maintain Russian identity. It is crucial to understand the historical lessons of the war, to build a bridge between the present, the past, and the future, and to consolidate and broadcast the cultural codes of the victory. Purpose: to conduct a comparative analysis of the university student’s social perceptions of the war and victory, and to identify the semantic domains of the war and the victory. Hypothesis: there is a differentiation between students’ social ideas about the war and the victory and the introspected ideas of their parents and grandparents about these phenomena, which indicates the multilayer semantic domains of the collective memory. Participants: students (N = 52) of Saratov State University (Saratov); aged from 20 to 22 (M = 21.48; SD = 1.12), 88.5% of them being females. Methods (tools): to collect the data, a survey consisting of socio-demographic and socio-psychological blocks was conducted; the data analysis included content analysis and prototype analysis by P. Verges. Results: the structural components of the perceptions of the war and the victory have been described through retrospective reflection, and their semantic domains have been identified. Emotional, personal, and value aspects were emphasized, as well as normative practices. The study proves that the expression of the personal aspect in perceptions of the war decreases from grandparents to descendants, while in the perceptions of the victory it increases. Conclusions: the study reveals a high consistency of ideas about the war and the victory from the perspective of three generations: the war is positioned as a catastrophic mode of human existence, while the victory is viewed as a trigger of powerful emotions and hope for the future. The revealed differentiation in the introspected ideas about the war and the victory indicates the multilayer semantic domains of the collective memory. Practical significance lies in the potential use of the findings in the development of programs for strengthening the university students’ civic engagement and positive social identities.