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

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What's the difference between open/closed class words and functional/lexical categories?

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Is there a term for syntactically and semantically linked modifying phrases?

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Are there names for the individual diphthongs?

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Is there a way to refer to the semantic similarity-based counterpart to eggcorn?

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What is the name for a placename that contains what the thing is in a different language?

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Is there a name for a word which can take both genders?

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Linguistic term “Word final” in Spanish

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What are the differences between phonology, phonetics, and prosody?

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Context-Free grammars and Language

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What's the difference between a light noun and a nominalizer?

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“Indifferent” reference of specific indefinites?

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What do the terms “exponent” and “formative” mean in linguistics?

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What is a similect?

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