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When I was looking at the plural noun ending for English, it said that it came from the Proto-Indo-European suffix *-es. I looked at the Spanish etymology. It didn't give much information except that ...
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How did the Middle English adapted itself to the Latin script?
As I read it, Latin script didn't really suit the sounds in this language.
Was the adaptation authoritative, ruled by a central ...
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How common is it cross-linguistically for a language to have a different word order in various types of embedded clauses such as relative clauses?
WALS appears to collect information on word order in ...
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Why are Proto-Germanic *ga- and Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm cognate?
I know that Proto-Germanic *h and Proto-Indo-European *k are cognate by the Grimm's law.
I know that Proto-Germanic *g and ...
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I am a PhD student in Statistics and I need more understandings in Linguistics for my PhD research.
Say we are given two sentences of SAME LENGTH -- sentence A and B. Sentence A is simple (simple ...
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I'm neither a professional linguist nor a native English speaker, please excuse me if I use any term incorrectly. Feel free to make and suggest edits to make my question more clear.
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When I was reading on Wiktionary, I found something interesting. The word for circle was traced back to a Greek word which was said to be "of Pre-Greek origin". However, I read about the word carcer, ...
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First of all, as a native German speaker, I apologise for my incorrect use of the English language.
After thinking about some different languages and wandering astray on this exact Stack Exchange, I ...
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Some IPA symbols such as ɲ lack any name, and when I tried searching for the symbol online, the pages I got only showed palatal nasal.
But I wonder what I should call it when I talk with others. Is ...
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When talking to learners of my mother tongue, Swedish, I've sometimes had to explain how using too polite language can be taken as rude or insulting, as it creates a certain distance between the ...
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I feel that euphemisms are a function of how society views certain aspects of life and feels that they should not be talked about directly. So are there languages with no euphemisms?
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By following the comments to another question about the evolution of Khoisan languages, I learned that there is a heated debate in Evolutionary Linguistics about the origin of language. Some quick ...
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I've been trying to understand an answer from another SE site (Japanese Language & Usage) where the answer involves the differences between anaphora and deixis. Here is the link.
What would be ...
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always
never
"all the time"
They aren't 'expletives', but they express a non-expiry. What word would describe this type of word?
Context : he never brings me flowers; he's always late; you criticise ...
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Can you answer this question?
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By ancient languages I mean in the Antiquity (or before).
They were less rich in vocabulary than modern languages (for instance Indo-European languages if we need a reference), or we could think that ...
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