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Is there a “one or more” dilemma in linguistics and if so how was it solved or how might it be solved?

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Is it true to say that in Thai languages past is default or generally guessed from context?

thai

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Latin/Greek for “Can't help but nod my head to music”

word-formation

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Etymology (?) of the “shush” gesture

etymology

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What is the modern general communication language writing system with simplest letter symbols?

writing-systems minimalism korean

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Representation of forms with multiple functions in glossing

morphology

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NLP/Computer linguistic : Difference between knowledge based approaches and superficially Text Summarization Methods and examples

computational-linguistics summarization

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Could phonological reanalysis in the acquisition of an L2 cause negative impacts in long term?

second-lang-acquisition

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What is the extent of the 'etymological fallacy'?

etymology

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Case in German Nouns

morphology cases german morphosyntax

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Why does Latin, Turkish, and Albanian have similar words? [closed]

latin indo-european turkish origin-of-language albanian

answered yesterday Arnaud Fournet 2,406

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Can we build semantic mappings for CFG same as we do in CCG?

syntax semantics grammar-formalism formal-semantics

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Did Roman numbers have a “0” symbol after all?

latin

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Final intonation of a question in a pitch-accent language

phonology

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What is the origin of the “redundant” pronouns in the Venetian language?

grammar romance-languages pronoun

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Why do swear words mean the same thing in both English and Spanish (possibly more languages)

english spanish translation phrases profanity

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Where can I find the letters of documented writing systems, as text, online?

comparative-linguistics arabic writing-systems unicode text-classification

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Learning linguistics from scratch

historical-linguistics morphology

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How to make sense of this table of “TEX hyphenation patterns combos”? [migrated]

english

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Genderless referral to a person as existent in Thai language

pronoun thai person titles

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In which modern-day country's borders did Arabic start?

historical-linguistics arabic

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What is the success rate for Western kids learning Chinese in kindergarten/primary school? [closed]

language-acquisition

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How to pronounce 'Il est bel et bon' (Passereau) [migrated]

historical-linguistics pronunciation french history

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Are the nasal portions of prenasalized consonants syllabic?

phonetics terminology syllables

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Etymological Fallacy

etymology historical-linguistics semantics language-change lexical-semantics

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Completely schematic construction?

terminology dependency-grammar cognitive-linguistics

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How usual is it for languages to have both prepositions and postpositions?

syntax linguistic-typology adpositions prepositions

modified Jan 17 at 11:13 jk - Reinstate Monica 15.8k

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Antiphrasis vs. Auto-antonymy

terminology historical-linguistics

modified Jan 17 at 11:01 Community♦ 1

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Languages without generic term for animals

list-of-languages lexical-semantics animacy

answered Jan 17 at 7:45 vectory 948

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In what circumstances is d devoiced in English?

english phonetics voicing

modified Jan 17 at 2:25 curiousdannii 3,649

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Is there a difference between Belgian Dutch (i.e. Flemish) and Vlaams?

dutch standards

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Is there a name for adding a question mark to a closed-ended answer? [closed]

semantics pragmatics questions

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How similar are the prototype writing systems of Ugarit-Tyre (“Phoenician”) and Safaitic?

arabic hebrew ancient proto-world phoenician

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Cumbrian sources

english resource-request dialects dictionary vocabulary

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Is there an aggregation of Oracle Bone Script glyphs?

reference-request chinese

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What are the unique features of the Australian Aboriginal Languages compared to other world languages

grammar linguistic-typology australian-languages

modified Jan 15 at 14:04 curiousdannii 3,649

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Had the ancient languages fewer words than modern languages?

history ancient

answered Jan 15 at 13:24 Lance Pollard 2,427

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Syntactic models than span across multiple sentences

syntax reference-request anaphora

answered Jan 15 at 13:17 Lance Pollard 2,427

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How important is syntax to translation?

syntax cross-linguistic translation

answered Jan 15 at 13:08 Lance Pollard 2,427

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How can one describe the relation between concepts, nouns, verbs and other word classes

lexical-semantics

answered Jan 15 at 12:57 Lance Pollard 2,427

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Can a natural language be non-serializable?

written-language

modified Jan 15 at 12:51 Lance Pollard 2,427

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Is there a formal definition of the term meaning?

semantics meaning

answered Jan 15 at 12:39 Lance Pollard 2,427

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What are linguistics foundations of how a message can be on topic?

semantics reference-request

answered Jan 15 at 12:24 Lance Pollard 2,427

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Are there any evocative dictionaries?

dictionary symbol

modified Jan 15 at 12:16 Lance Pollard 2,427

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Which semantic shifts befit the legal meaning of 'consideration'?

etymology

answered Jan 15 at 8:35 Chrome 257

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What's the difference between syntax and grammar?

syntax grammar terminology

modified Jan 14 at 22:37 jlawler 8,519

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In X Bar Theory where can “ne” and “pas” be found?

syntax syntax-trees french x-bar-theory

modified Jan 14 at 20:03 Community♦ 1

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Why does Spanish tend to swap letters in words?

language-change spanish metathesis

modified Jan 14 at 17:41 Michaelyus 3,800

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