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A treasure map for the coast-less ocean. Or: Diving into the semantic space.
No fish has ever been observed swimming in the Arabic language, so when saying the simile "العربية بحر", the tertium comparationis is definitely not that animals with gills can breathe there. Commonly, the saying is understood in the sense that the Arabic language is as infinite as a coast-less ocean — but the image has much more to tell than that.
Mirko Vogel
Jun 264 min read


Morphological variants: An idea in many shapes
In this posting, we present the concept of morphological variants of collocations, which is a way of using derivational morphology to...
Mirko Vogel
Aug 26, 20246 min read


Announcing Muraija 0.9.2!
We are very happy to announce a new release of Muraija! In addition to many minor improvements and bug fixes, we added two new features:...
Mirko Vogel
Jul 18, 20241 min read
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