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Why did Proto-Indo-European (probably) have such little vocab?

proto-indo-european

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The Semantics of English Nominalization

semantics

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Are there any rankings of languages' rates of change?

diachronic

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What is the meaning of the Latin names of grammatical cases (in general, not in Latin)?

terminology etymology latin cases declension

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Languages with masculine nouns for various female entities, or feminine nouns for male entities

list-of-languages nouns gender natural-gender kinship-terms

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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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What is the substrate of Romanian language?

historical-linguistics native-language romanian substrate

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Is there a general consensus on what modern language is the closest relative of Albanian?

language-families indo-european albanian

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*h₁éḱwos > ἵππος, (Aeolian) ἴκκος

etymology reference-request greek

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Hypothetical month names

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Where are some of the biggest freely available English 1 on 1 conversation corpuses that are in plain text preferably?

corpora american-english

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Why does anger has something to do with spleen in both Chinese and English?

english etymology chinese

answered yesterday Arnaud Fournet 2,176

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What are the semantic functions of a complementizer phrase (CP)

syntax english semantics pragmatics

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Excepting Romanian, was “Wales” ever translated/transliterated in modern times outside English with the same term as that meaning “Gaul” or “Gauls”?

translation names transliteration celtic romanian

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Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages?

etymology latin romance-languages romanian

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Why don't any languages have strictly one character for every single phonetic sound?

phonetics phonemes phonetic-symbols phones

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what are the various properties that inflection indicates in words in various languages?

inflection

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Portuguese: Inconsistencies in use of second person pronouns and conjugation

romance-languages pronoun portuguese

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Are there differences in writing among Arabic dialects?

written-language arabic

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What was the diffusion and the use of dictionaries in ancient times? Every civilization with a dictionary?

history ancient lexicography

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Had the ancient languages fewer words than modern languages?

history ancient

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Is there a dictionary of word commonalities across languages?

cross-linguistic lexicography

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Is there an English to Coptic translator online?

english resource-request machine-translation

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When was the name of Wales first mentioned in Romanian, and in which form?

translation transliteration romanian

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Familiarity with any/innie merger in American English?

phonology american-english

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Relationship between complexity of a sentence and the average distance between the tokens in which we relate

syntax computational-linguistics theoretical-linguistics

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Etymology of Romanian “amor” (cf. “iubire”)

etymology historical-linguistics latin borrowing romanian

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Why is the Romanian syntax for “Good night!” opposite to all the other Romance languages?

syntax romance-languages romanian

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How common are languages with different word orders in matrix and non-matrix clauses

linguistic-typology word-order relative-clauses

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Can English “dream” be a cognate to Latin “dormatio” and Russian “dröma” “sleep”?

etymology

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If there is a pattern to Chinese characters

written-language chinese

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Why is it “untenable” and not “untainable” in English?

english etymology

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What is the Proto-Indo-European root word for electricity?

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Some “LINGUISTIQUE formulas” to translate French texts into English?

english french written-language

answered Nov 17 at 12:25 Adam Bittlingmayer 5,551

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Representation of internal structure [on hold]

syntax

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Distribution and origin of reflexive pronouns like “myself” across languages

grammar linguistic-typology

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Does this English exercise test syntactic or semantic knowledge of a student?

syntax semantics

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How can I check whether 'question' in English, and 'xahesh' in Persian are cognates?

proto-indo-european latin persian roots cognates

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What are known PIE stock phrases?

proto-indo-european

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Does a scientific methodology exist for evaluating bilingual dictionaries?

reference-request romance-languages spanish dictionary evaluation-metrics

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What is the history of the word “addict”? [on hold]

english etymology latin greek

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Iterated reduplication?

morphology reduplication

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How does one learn the meaning of a new symbol in Chinese?

written-language chinese writing-systems

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Did the word circle come from the PIE word *kr-kr, which was said to be the Proto-Indo-European word for circular?

etymology proto-indo-european

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what languages lack gender pronouns? or more [duplicate]

pronoun

answered Nov 15 at 23:29 Number File 849

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