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Do different languages use different sign language?

sign-languages symbol

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Could the language(s) of the Proto-Sinaitic incriptions have words with no known cognates?

cognates undeciphered-writing

answered 2 hours ago Arnaud Fournet 2,710

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Are there any studies on marked adjective order in the NP in head initial languages like Spanish or Albanian?

syntax pragmatics adjectives

answered 2 hours ago Miller 1

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Antecedents of prepositions and adverbs

prepositions adverbs anaphora

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Do nouns in simple apposition semantically unpack to predicate nominatives in English?

english semantics grammar cross-linguistic

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Derivation of Passive according to Principles and Parameters (Jaeggli)

syntax generative-grammar passive principles-and-parameters

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Is there a database/website etc. where I can check which languages have two or more given segments and which treat them as separate phonemes

phoneme-inventories

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What did the PIE prefix *kom- signify in

etymology proto-indo-european

modified yesterday Accounting 3,567

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Is Geoffrey cognate with these words?

etymology proto-indo-european

asked yesterday Knick 9

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Ellipsis of noun phrase head when modifiers have different parts of speech

orthography ellipsis prescriptivism

modified yesterday Adam Bittlingmayer 6,038

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Is there a French IPA translator for free?

ipa french online-resources

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Deontic aspect in circumstantial scope

modality

asked yesterday Louis Maddox 121

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Semantic category of [VERB] + as a + [NOUN]

english semantics

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Is language change universal, ongoing, and arbitrary?

language-change sociolinguistics dialects variation

modified yesterday curiousdannii 4,496

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Question about roots in Semitic (Hebrew & Arabic)

arabic hebrew roots

asked yesterday Tsutsu 908

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The letter <u> in Provençal: when is it [y] and when is it [œ]?

phonology romance-languages occitan

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Does a main verb undergo inversion in “Has he any shame?”

syntax english verbs inversion

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Citing Praat script APA

phonetics praat

answered 2 days ago Christian 159

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Will we ever decipher the Wadi el-Ḥol and Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions?

alphabets undeciphered-writing

answered 2 days ago Draconis 33.7k

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Difference between intonation and tonality?

syntax terminology semantics intonation

modified 2 days ago user6726 46.9k

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As a relatively proficient heritage speaker, should I consider myself a “native” speaker, or something else?

terminology language-acquisition

answered 2 days ago jk - Reinstate Monica 17.4k

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How to find most frequent bigram letters in R [closed]

computational-linguistics

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What are the differences between Radford's various introductory texts to Generative Syntax?

syntax reference-request

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What does the word “Trúc” mean in Vietnamese when used as a name?

vietnamese

asked May 28 at 5:50 Buildstarted 97

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Why can I coordinate direct object + verbal adjuncts?

syntax

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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

answered May 27 at 21:07 Christian 159

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How to synthesize French vowels

phonology phonetics french praat speech-synthesis

answered May 27 at 19:50 Christian 159

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Does Pragmatics describe what informs an interpretation?

pragmatics

modified May 27 at 19:07 Christian 159

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Allowed surface locations of [+wh] phrases apparently depend on semantics—if so, how and why?

syntax semantics movement wh-words

modified May 27 at 13:15 one-off-post 101

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Do any languages use distinct graphemes for vowels with different tones?

orthography list-of-languages tone

answered May 27 at 9:47 Arnaud Fournet 2,710

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Volume and speed of exhaled air in different languages

phonetics

answered May 27 at 6:37 Christian 159

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Have any linguists studied/described a language that was totally foreign to them?

historical-linguistics methodology anthropology

answered May 27 at 5:53 Christian 159

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Name of horizontal line below character in Hebrew

hebrew

answered May 26 at 23:42 Juhasz 196

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How were glottal stops indicated in Akkadian cuneiform?

phonology orthography cuneiform glottal-stop akkadian

modified May 26 at 23:17 Draconis 33.7k

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Why does Hebrew transcribe Akkadian š inconsistently?

historical-linguistics borrowing transcription hebrew semitic-languages

modified May 26 at 23:04 Draconis 33.7k

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Most commonly used words across languages?

corpora comparative-linguistics words

answered May 26 at 19:15 Adam Bittlingmayer 6,038

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I don't know how to approach a question on syntax I have been asked in an assignment [closed]

syntax syntax-trees

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Where might the given name Xelefon originate?

historical-linguistics orthography written-language history names

answered May 26 at 12:35 Mad Banners 729

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Are adpositions lexical or grammatical morphemes?

lexicon morphemes adpositions

answered May 26 at 12:19 one-off-post 101

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Praat Pitch Parameters: pitch floor and minimum

praat

asked May 26 at 11:28 Afton Nelson 21

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What are some good resources on the study of word order?

reference-request word-order

asked May 26 at 11:23 breeda1 21

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Are there formal linguistic understandings of misspelled words?

orthography theoretical-linguistics

asked May 26 at 6:51 Haohan Wang 121

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Are these English judges using 'linguistics' correctly? [closed]

terminology

answered May 26 at 5:04 user6726 46.9k

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“It” referring to [+wh] phrases and the syntax of “as to”

syntax wh-words

asked May 26 at 2:07 thorimur 121

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What's the precisest term for verbs that belong to the same stem without any affixes?

verbs

asked May 26 at 1:51 Ghreu 287

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What is the difference between a word root and a word stem?

terminology roots stems

answered May 26 at 1:45 Ghreu 287

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