Otavio Macedo

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I'm a software developer with immense interest in linguistics and languages in general. My native language is Portuguese and, at the moment, I'm commited to the Portuguese Language & Usage proposal. If you love that language and admire its tradition as much as I do, please commit to it and be part of a great lusophone community!

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43 Questions

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18	Are there any non-Indo-European languages with go-periphrasis?
18	Do the Khoisan languages resemble the world's first language?
15	Language acquisition without interactive contact with fluent speakers
14	Which phenomena compensate for sound losses in languages?
13	How much is known about verb regularization rates?

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+5	How does alcohol affect the ability to speak a second language?
+10	Are there languages with other spatial deixis besides “here”, “there” and “over there”?
+5	How are phones distributed across languages?
+5	How did English and Portuguese develop the construction “have+pp”?

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12	Are some languages known to have taken grammatical features etc rather than just lexicon from their substrate languages?
9	Is there an IPA character for the sympathetic sucking in sound?
9	Outside of Modern Hebrew, do any previously dead languages have native speakers again?
8	What is the term for, and a list of, “continuous dialects”?
8	What's the global difference between nouns and verbs?

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14 nouns × 3	9 phonetics × 3
12 terminology × 5	9 dead-languages × 2
12 substrate	9 language-revival
10 linguistic-typology × 3	9 history
9 etymology × 3	9 ipa