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Giving a technical description of Greek Circumstantial / Adverbial Participles

SeligkeitIstInGott

101

modified 5 hours ago

0 votes

2 answers

37 views

Is there a place which cross-references letters in European languages?

indo-european graphemics

Uwe

180

modified 13 hours ago

0 votes

0 answers

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Secondary and primary stress in English sentences

phonetics american-english stress sentences

Zoltan King

353

modified 15 hours ago

5 votes

3 answers

464 views

German Noun Roots of Germanic Origin with Multiple Non-Schwa Syllables

german

Quamboq

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modified 18 hours ago

0 votes

0 answers

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How does the author reach this conclusion?

grammar

Prince Deepthinker

101

modified 18 hours ago

1 vote

1 answer

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Is there a word for a pair of verbs that mean the same thing but with subject and object swapped?

terminology verbs passive

Matthew

1

answered 22 hours ago

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0 answers

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Is there really an important Finno-Ugric substratum in some Balto-Slavic language? [closed]

phonology reference-request proto-indo-european

Sarmatian is Balto-Slavic

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modified 22 hours ago

1 vote

0 answers

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Does a possessive nominalize an adjective in Indonesian?

grammar malay

Константин Ван

123

asked yesterday

0 votes

1 answer

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What is the etymology of the Maghrebi interjection "شاه" (chah or cheh)?

etymology arabic berber

CommunityBot

1

modified yesterday

0 votes

0 answers

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In the IPA transcription do I need to show the global fall/rise before or after the stressed syllable?

ipa inflection intonation

Zoltan King

353

asked yesterday

-1 votes

0 answers

46 views

What word-classes do the first three words of "One of what is desired." comprise? [closed]

syntax grammar

BEEDELLROKEJULIANLOCKHART

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modified yesterday

0 votes

0 answers

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Are Proto-Slavic -ędo and Gothic -undi cognate?

germanic-languages slavic-languages

John

47

asked yesterday

0 votes

4 answers

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A good example of a Finnic or Finno-Ugric language that can be confused with Finnish?

finno-ugric

Markku P.

11

answered yesterday

1 vote

1 answer

51 views

Difference between 𒄣 and 𒄤 [closed]

cuneiform sumerian

nai

71

answered 2 days ago

0 votes

0 answers

16 views

How would the Ancient Greek noun λόρδων decline, and is the LSJ's definition of it correct? [migrated]

terminology greek nouns declension

Qaos

1

modified 2 days ago

0 votes

1 answer

73 views

Number of vowel heights in European languages

vowel-height

user6726

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modified 2 days ago

5 votes

1 answer

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Computational models of language acquisition

language-acquisition theoretical-linguistics computational-linguistics reference-request

Glorfindel

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modified 2 days ago

2 votes

0 answers

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Request for Texts Giving an Overview of the Evolution of the Indo-Iranian Laguages

historical-linguistics reference-request comparative-linguistics indo-aryan

jk - Reinstate Monica

25.6k

modified 2 days ago

0 votes

1 answer

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Good book to learn the empirical aspects of linguistics, and language families in particular

reference-request

Ishan Kashyap Hazarika

163

modified 2 days ago

3 votes

1 answer

62 views

What has happened to the World Phonotactics Database?

phonology resource-request phonotactics online-resources

Gaston Ümlaut

6,516

answered 2 days ago

3 votes

1 answer

269 views

VerbNet semantic roles and preposition groups - how to determine matches

computational-linguistics semantics verbnet

CommunityBot

1

modified May 17 at 5:03

2 votes

2 answers

351 views

Formalizing Natural Languages

semantics formal-semantics logic mathematical-language formality

lemontree

6,120

modified May 16 at 23:57

-1 votes

1 answer

54 views

Correlation between the English -wise and German -weise suffixes

english german adverbs

nai

71

answered May 16 at 22:57

0 votes

0 answers

23 views

When do Hindi and Urdu follow free word order?

word-order

nai

71

asked May 16 at 22:42

4 votes

2 answers

597 views

How intelligible are German and Dutch to each other?

germanic-languages german dutch mutual-intelligibility

user149408

121

answered May 16 at 18:22

-1 votes

0 answers

60 views

Why misogynist is a monomorphemic word? [closed]

terminology morphology morphosyntax affixes morphemes

user37245

1

asked May 16 at 11:39

2 votes

0 answers

52 views

How do you make a linguistic map like Ethnologue does [duplicate]

tools austronesian dialect-mapping

jk - Reinstate Monica

25.6k

modified May 16 at 9:52

2 votes

0 answers

38 views

When expressing speak/write certain language, what leads to the different choices of cases? [closed]

cases

lilysirius

283

asked May 16 at 4:24

0 votes

1 answer

76 views

Are Proto-Slavic present passive participle forms from first-person singular present forms?

slavic-languages

user54748

351

answered May 16 at 2:18

20 votes

9 answers

8k views

How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article, clitic or affix?

articles definiteness

Tuňuquq

197

answered May 15 at 23:32

4 votes

1 answer

212 views

Difference between voiced and lenis consonants in English

phonology phonetics consonants voicing

Araucaria - him

2,970

modified May 15 at 21:25

2 votes

2 answers

888 views

What languages, if any, require spaces around punctuation marks?

punctuation

lilysirius

283

modified May 15 at 17:22

10 votes

2 answers

542 views

Any reasons for unexplained centumization in Balto-Slavic?

historical-linguistics proto-indo-european slavic-languages

Sarah Thomason

41

answered May 15 at 2:54

0 votes

1 answer

110 views

What does "An. Ox." mean?

old-english

curiousdannii♦

5,406

modified May 15 at 2:41

1 vote

1 answer

62 views

Can someone share with me an article that studies the decline of by-phrases in the passive?

syntax grammar reference-request corpora passive

user6726

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answered May 14 at 1:30

1 vote

2 answers

107 views

Computer generated/aided glossing

machine-translation tools interlinear-gloss

CommunityBot

1

modified May 13 at 8:07

-2 votes

1 answer

58 views

What does "torido chaumate" mean? [closed]

latin

brass tacks

16.5k

modified May 12 at 23:12

1 vote

1 answer

107 views

Why does the Portuguese language sound similar to French language to me?

phonetics french spanish portuguese

nai

71

answered May 12 at 23:05

0 votes

0 answers

49 views

When did the use of œ in French start?

historical-linguistics diacritics

nai

71

modified May 12 at 22:35

-1 votes

0 answers

16 views

(German) Do the words "schwitzen" and "wichsen" rhyme? [migrated]

german rhyme rhyming

fdb

22.6k

modified May 12 at 20:17

-2 votes

0 answers

88 views

Is this Irish pronunciation correct?

transcription irish phoneme-inventories

Sriotchilism O'Zaic

144

modified May 12 at 15:56

-2 votes

0 answers

35 views

Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch

old-english

John

47

asked May 12 at 15:12

0 votes

1 answer

113 views

How did the usage of the word "type" to refer to a person come about?

historical-linguistics etymology indo-european

Colin Fine

6,279

answered May 11 at 17:04

0 votes

0 answers

39 views

Syntax X Bar Tree - Complements & Adjuncts

syntax x-bar-theory adjuncts complement

Roslyn

1

asked May 11 at 14:33

9 votes

3 answers

863 views

When does language "evolve" and when is it just wrong grammar?

grammar evolution

Jonathan Scholbach

111

answered May 11 at 0:56

1 vote

1 answer

89 views

Why do languages evolve to make a certain marker obligatory?

syntax

Draconis♦

50.9k

modified May 10 at 19:57

-1 votes

2 answers

77 views

List of Lexical and Auxiliary verbs [closed]

verbs auxiliary-verbs

Araucaria - him

2,970

modified May 10 at 13:28

2 votes

2 answers

73 views

Can dentals be palatalized?

palatalization

Tristan

4,482

answered May 10 at 9:56

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