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Characterising adverbial constructions

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What is the mutual intelligibility between the Standard German and Hessisch?

germanic-languages german

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Is modern English the most spoken language of all time?

english history

modified 20 hours ago Aqualone 453

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Semantical and functional morphemes

semantics morphology lexical-semantics morphemes

asked 22 hours ago A. Kvåle 63

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Grice's conversational maxims

pragmatics

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What is an “open” and a “closed” system of signs through semiotics' lens?

semiotics

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The similarities between English “very” and Talish “ver”

etymology

answered yesterday Adam Bittlingmayer 6,197

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Examples of Borrowing Languages

list-of-languages borrowing evolution

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Are symbols a part of speech? [closed]

parts-of-speech symbol

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The death of her grandmother did more than carry away the woman Alexandra loved best [closed]

english grammar

asked yesterday Mcreaper 9

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/ðæs saɪd/ versus /ɡʊb bɔɪ/ - Assimilation of place versus manner

english phonology phonetics theoretical-linguistics assimilation

modified 2 days ago Keelan 2,457

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What's the origin of the word “br” in Yemeni Arabic?

historical-linguistics semitic-languages african-languages

answered 2 days ago MickG 485

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NP or DP for “that book”

syntax syntax-trees determiners noun-phrases

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If discrepancies are to facts, then what _____ is to intuition? I can't think of the word [closed]

english nouns

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What is the etymological difference bewteen ب ر ك and ص ل و‎ roots?

etymology semitic-languages roots

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What are the descendants of the PIE suffix “-n̥kʷos” in the Czech language if there are any?

etymology proto-indo-european slavic-languages czech

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What are the descendants of the PIE suffix “-n̥kʷos” in the Czech language if there are any? [duplicate]

etymology proto-indo-european slavic-languages czech

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How is a language's classification decided upon ? (or modified)

historical-linguistics language-identification

asked Nov 22 at 18:51 Primata Lógico 19

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Arabic: A question on the so-called verbal noun

arabic

modified Nov 22 at 18:35 Primata Lógico 19

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Can Greek form other compound words like “Hyperborea”?

greek prefixes

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Why are mixed languages so rare?

historical-linguistics language-families creoles language-contact

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Case Study: Classifying the origin of a word

etymology historical-linguistics

asked Nov 21 at 22:52 Primata Lógico 19

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Is this Wikipedia Arabic dialects map correct about Badawi Arabic, and what is Badawi Arabic?

arabic dialects dialect-mapping

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Sytnax Tree Question about wh questions [closed]

syntax

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ValueError: Can not squeeze dim[1], expected a dimension of 1

computational-linguistics computer-science python

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Swadesh list for proto indo-european and coefficient of relatedness

proto-indo-european swadesh-list

modified Nov 20 at 22:01 Community♦ 1

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Why are the names of languages always adjectives? (e.g. “English”, “French”, “Spanish”)

terminology vocabulary

modified Nov 20 at 21:36 Vladimir F 491

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Differences among Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese

linguistic-typology language-change sino-tibetan

modified Nov 20 at 19:58 Michaelyus 4,830

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A question about argument structure of see, watch, look

semantics theoretical-linguistics lexical-semantics thematic-roles

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Questions about identifying the thematic roles

semantics theoretical-linguistics thematic-roles

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Are some languages inherently harder for children to acquire?

language-acquisition

answered Nov 20 at 6:02 Aqualone 453

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Verb-ing after this phrase or clause “this is my first time”

syntax grammar participles gerund

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Is this phrase or clause a clause?

syntax parts-of-speech word-order words clauses

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Corpus of Taboo card game?

computational-linguistics corpora resource-request language-games

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“Ring species” as dialect continuum?

comparative-linguistics dialects dialect-mapping

answered Nov 19 at 11:41 Patrick A Scannell 1

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Is most of the world's languages being in a small number of families a recent development? Or has there always been cycles of linguistic expansion?

historical-linguistics cross-linguistic history

answered Nov 19 at 11:22 jk - Reinstate Monica 18.6k

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Relationship between possession (“to have”) and tenses (“I have seen”)

cross-linguistic grammar tense possession

answered Nov 19 at 9:05 Aqualone 453

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“It is _ that/who + verb.” pleonasm vs. “_ + verb.”

terminology figure-of-speech

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What's the tense ambiguity of this sentence?

semantics theoretical-linguistics

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Terms for root stress

terminology stress

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Term for conversational actions meant to influence emotional state

psycholinguistics

modified Nov 18 at 17:06 Community♦ 1

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are there any languages that have sounds in diphthongs that don’t occur in isolation?

phonetics vowels diphthongs

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What are “Auxilliary nouns” in Kyrgyz?

parts-of-speech turkic-languages relational-nouns

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Pronunciation of [æ], when [æ] comes before m or n [closed]

pronunciation

asked Nov 18 at 10:19 kay 21

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Why are kinship terms typical examples of inalienablity but not meronomy?

semantics possession kinship-terms

modified Nov 18 at 6:33 curiousdannii 4,731

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Are there any examples of neopronouns for non-binary or third gender people being fully incorporated into a language's grammar?

list-of-languages pronoun natural-gender grammaticalisation

modified Nov 18 at 6:23 curiousdannii 4,731

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Are voiced true nasal fricatives the same as breathy nasal stops?

phonetics

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How did verb conjugation by person, number and gender appear? Why do we still use it?

historical-linguistics verbs sentences conjugation

modified Nov 17 at 22:17 jk - Reinstate Monica 18.6k

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