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is there any similar verb negation in other indu European languages?

indo-european negation

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Analysis of adverbial phrases composed of NOUN and NOUN

adverbs phrases

answered 10 hours ago Draconis 18.9k

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Is there such thing as a 'hyperphrase'?

terminology phrases

answered 18 hours ago Yael Valier 9

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The Origin of the Word 'God'

english etymology hebrew germanic-languages

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Antiphrasis vs. Auto-antonymy

terminology historical-linguistics

answered 22 hours ago george 1

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Was there a Semitic influence on Proto-Germanic?

historical-linguistics semitic-languages language-contact proto-germanic

answered yesterday Alvaro Passaro 1

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Have we observed classes changing from open to closed, or vice versa?

language-change parts-of-speech

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Have ejective consonants ever arisen on their own?

phonology list-of-languages sound-change phoneme-inventories ejectives

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Is language “necessarily underspecified”?

semantics reference-request pragmatics formal-semantics

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Understanding the etymology of Persian “farāmoş”, to forget

etymology

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What is sentence focus environment?

linguistic-typology dialects focus

modified yesterday curiousdannii 3,037

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Why is the passive voice more prevalent in English than in other Indo-European languages?

english indo-european passive

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Is Wikipedia's argument for Universal Grammar completely fallacious?

syntax language-acquisition chomsky universal-grammar

modified 2 days ago MaxB 267

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Linguistic relationship between Hebrew and Greek

comparative-linguistics semitic-languages

modified 2 days ago curiousdannii 3,037

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Google Translate Thai with IPA transcription?

ipa transcription thai

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Collocations vs compound nouns

compounds collocations

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Replacing Chinese characters with pinyin forever as Vietnamese did

chinese writing vietnamese readability romanization

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Can the IPA represent all languages' tones?

ipa list-of-languages tone

answered Aug 18 at 8:46 mango 6

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How “üçün” is Turkic but “çün” is Iranic?

etymology turkish turkic-languages

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register variation: unbalanced corpus sample

corpora variation register

modified Aug 17 at 22:03 Community♦ 1

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What is the evidence for the arbitrariness of the sign?

semantics signifiers

modified Aug 17 at 14:46 Ajagar 93

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What are the title capitalization rules in some languages?

french irish

modified Aug 17 at 13:57 Luke Sawczak 1,376

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Minimum population for language survival

language-change creoles dead-languages

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What semantic notions underlie PIE meh₂d- ('wet') and Proto-Germanic matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”)?

etymology proto-indo-european proto-germanic

modified Aug 16 at 21:03 Community♦ 1

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How do languages with negative concord express the actual negation of negative polarity items?

semantics pragmatics negation

modified Aug 16 at 15:30 vectory 633

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Which nodes are meant by 'the specifier of a null active V' and 'this VP'?

syntax syntax-trees

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What is the relationship between syntax and semantics?

syntax reference-request semantics

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Finite Nominalised Clauses

infinitive gerund nominals

modified Aug 16 at 10:02 Community♦ 1

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Representing knowledge extracted from output of dependency parsing

computational-linguistics syntax-trees parsing python summarization

modified Aug 16 at 9:01 Community♦ 1

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Looking for vowels (in phoneme tier, 2) within specific words(in word tier, 1) in Praat textgrid

praat

modified Aug 16 at 4:03 Community♦ 1

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What are the reasons to justify that some text is in X language?

linguistic-typology lexical-semantics language-identification

modified Aug 15 at 20:08 drammock 493

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Do absolute synonyms exist?

english reference-request variation synonymy

answered Aug 15 at 20:05 A. Kvåle 101

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Does the southern pronunciation of Jenny have a triphthong in it?

phonetics dialects american-english names triphthongs

modified Aug 15 at 19:34 A. Kvåle 101

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Which are the easiest books in NLP for linguists with no background in NLP? [duplicate]

computational-linguistics

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A linguist searching options to learn Natural Language Processing

computational-linguistics

modified Aug 15 at 10:53 Mayuri Dilip 1

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How does PIE *kʷ in **wĺ̥kʷos change to PGmc. f in wulfaz?

etymology sound-change proto-indo-european proto-germanic

modified Aug 14 at 20:39 Ajagar 93

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How did the cross-linguistic univerbation 'nothing/not/none/no + less' semantically shift to signify 'despite'?

etymology latin

answered Aug 14 at 20:10 Draconis 18.9k

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What is the subject of a passive sentence?

grammatical-subject passive grammatical-voice

modified Aug 14 at 18:15 algo 62

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Verb “to be” in tree diagram [closed]

syntax-trees

asked Aug 14 at 9:52 AnaMPL 1

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Why is “turn” used in possessive constructions? [closed]

grammar

modified Aug 14 at 5:23 Keelan 1,472

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Is it possible to become a native speaker of another language for someone that already has a mother tongue?

psycholinguistics native-language neurolinguistics

modified Aug 14 at 3:19 Robert Kuzyk 1

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Reference Request: connection between PIE \leg- and \les

historical-linguistics proto-indo-european

modified Aug 13 at 13:50 jknappen 12.9k

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How have dialectology surveys changed over the years?

sociolinguistics dialects dialect-mapping

asked Aug 13 at 13:29 Maverick139 11

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Order of adjectives in Hebrew [on hold]

adjectives word-order hebrew

asked Aug 13 at 13:22 SAR622 104

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Can I form a morphological condition like this?

morphology morphological-analysis

modified Aug 13 at 13:10 jknappen 12.9k

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Why 'differential argument marking', not 'different argument marking'? [closed]

terminology

asked Aug 13 at 6:50 Greek - Area 51 Proposal 1,708

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What explains the semantic sameness in 'Verb + preposition + Direct Object' and 'Verb + Direct Object'?

english verbs

modified Aug 13 at 0:49 curiousdannii 3,037

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