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Why is the word "God" plural in some languages?

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Do conjunctions like "and" ever become grammaticalized into plural morphemes?

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Is there any language which distinguishes between “un” as in “not” and “un” as in “inverse”?

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Do all languages distinguish between persons and non-persons?

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Why is the Croatian word for "honest", coming from Proto-Slavic *iskrьňь, spelt "iskren" and not **iskranj?

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Languages which changed their writing direction

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How to synthesize the "du" of "duck"?

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Name of convention of romanized vowel pronunciation ("pronounce like Spanish")?

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Why would Chinese ESL learners read FOR/OF alternately?

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Is it linguistic prescriptivism to argue that jargon should be used accurately?

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Are all alignments of A, P, Sa and Sp attested?

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Alternatives to IPA?

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What's the geographic distribution of the father/bra split in American English?

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Inchoative aspect and movement verbs

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