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Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?

answered 4 hours ago Leonard Clark 1

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Is there any database with English verb argument structure?

reference-request verbs

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What is the proper way to use the adjective مرح as a person's name? [closed]

grammar

asked 15 hours ago Nurannahaar Abdussalam 9

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request: linguistics self-study exercises (worksheets or exercises)

reference-request

modified 22 hours ago user236343 43

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Please help me identify discourse deixis

discourse anaphora deixis

modified 23 hours ago Tracy 11

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Is Mongolian “шинэ” / “ᠰᠢᠨ᠎ᠠ”, meaning “new”, a borrowing of Chinese “新”?

etymology borrowing chinese mongolian

modified yesterday Community♦ 1

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What is the consonant equivalent of Well's lexical sets for English vowels?

phonology phonetics english consonants

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Voiced aspirated sonorants? (Not breathy voiced)

phonetics phones

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Meaning of Old Babylonian word pāqidūtum [closed]

grammar translation akkadian babylonian

modified yesterday fdb 20.9k

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Comparing two cognate lists, how do I determine validity?

language-change cognates evolutionary-linguistics lexical-relations

answered yesterday user6726 59.3k

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-logy Nouns: Referring to the Same Objects? [closed]

english

modified 2 days ago Tristan 2,798

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How should the Sumerian ergative marker be read?

orthography sumerian cuneiform

modified 2 days ago Community♦ 1

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What is the consensus on Sumerian auslauts?

phonology cuneiform sumerian

modified 2 days ago Community♦ 1

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deleted - Can you identify this alphabet please? [closed]

language-identification

modified 2 days ago user34136 1

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Is there an English to Coptic translator online?

english resource-request machine-translation

modified 2 days ago Marian 1

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How was backbiting connected to biting in the back in so many languages and cultures?

etymology

modified 2 days ago Janus Bahs Jacquet 1,774

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What are some of the difficulties that linguists face in defining the notion of “word”?

terminology

modified Jul 25 at 3:05 jlawler 9,296

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Could the at symbol '@' be considered a vocative marker?

grammar writing vocatives

modified Jul 24 at 18:57 jk - Reinstate Monica 22.1k

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Is Affix Hopping Still a Thing?

english tense movement

answered Jul 24 at 17:45 Atamiri 2,449

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Free definitions of words [closed]

terminology

modified Jul 24 at 17:23 user7777 11

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Characterising adverbial constructions

syntax adverbs conjunctions

modified Jul 24 at 11:02 Community♦ 1

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Meta-operational grammar

english present progressive

modified Jul 24 at 8:57 Francois1103 1

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Etymology of the place name Chattaroy

etymology

answered Jul 23 at 18:58 Lorraine Johnson 21

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Was the word “Jew” originally a racial slur?

historical-linguistics latin evolutionary-linguistics old-french

modified Jul 23 at 13:39 Loewian 151

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Why do languages almost never have negative comparatives or superlatives

morphology

modified Jul 23 at 8:55 Quintus Caesius - RM 171

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Cognates for men, non cognates for women

historical-linguistics cognates

answered Jul 23 at 7:09 jk - Reinstate Monica 22.1k

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Is American pronunciation “optional” for Americans? [closed]

phonetics

answered Jul 23 at 1:27 user6726 59.3k

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What are unaccented letters called?

accent diacritics

modified Jul 22 at 20:21 fdb 20.9k

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Etymology (?) of the “shush” gesture

etymology semiotics

answered Jul 22 at 17:07 Jaime 1

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Difference pronunciation of the word cometh in Middle English and Early Modern English?

phonology historical-linguistics pronunciation

modified Jul 22 at 16:45 Rosie F 412

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In what sense are terms for “white/shining” and for “swamp/marsh” “semantically connected” in many languages?

etymology proto-indo-european indo-european cognates

modified Jul 22 at 15:34 cipricus 242

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Is the word for “brother-in-law” in Germanic languages related to the Aramaic/Syriac גיס?

etymology proto-indo-european germanic-languages semitic-languages kinship-terms

answered Jul 22 at 13:46 Tristan 2,798

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ʃ pronounced with tongue

ipa pronunciation fricatives

answered Jul 22 at 3:34 Jaime 1

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Why does Latin, Turkish, and Albanian share common words? [closed]

latin indo-european turkish origin-of-language albanian

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Why is English so flexible?

english word-order

answered Jul 21 at 20:15 Yanek Yuk 176

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Why were early studies on morpheme acquisition criticized?

second-lang-acquisition

modified Jul 21 at 5:57 jogloran 4,114

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need to understand infinitive

english verbs grammar korean infinitive

modified Jul 19 at 23:09 Yellow Sky 13.9k

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Does grammar allow two questions in one sentence? [closed]

grammar questions

modified Jul 19 at 21:19 matt_rule 111

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X-bar theory wh-questions [closed]

syntax-trees x-bar-theory wh-words

asked Jul 19 at 11:35 שרה מעדי 1

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How many sentences are there in the excerpt below? [closed]

sentences

asked Jul 19 at 7:47 Huỳnh Trọng Nhân 9

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Do any languages contrast [r] and [r:]?

list-of-languages trills rhotics

modified Jul 18 at 8:00 Szabolcs 566

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Is there a linguistic term for “grammatically well-formed word salad”?

semantics generative-grammar

answered Jul 17 at 19:39 lemontree♦ 5,877

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What's the difference between structural and generative linguistics?

terminology generative-grammar

answered Jul 17 at 16:57 Reshma praveen 31

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What program can I use to make a tree of a language family?

historical-linguistics language-families resource-request

modified Jul 17 at 12:37 Community♦ 1

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Is it possible to have the same symbol for different sounds in IPA?

ipa phonetic-symbols

answered Jul 17 at 0:47 Nardog 3,976

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Term for conversational actions meant to influence emotional state

psycholinguistics

modified Jul 16 at 19:07 Community♦ 1

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When evaluating a language, can we say that this language is probably natural or artificial?

historical-linguistics comparative-linguistics

modified Jul 16 at 17:57 d_e 321

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Is there any site where I can find the list of natural languages that dont have a list of phonemes?

phonemes phoneme-inventories

answered Jul 16 at 16:16 Draconis 44.7k

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