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Why is “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani” transliterated with a Chi in Matthew and Mark?
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A syntactician “must-read” list
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Julius Caesar original name spelling?
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How did Adolf Hitler pronounce his own name?
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Accusative or ergative language?
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How old is linguistics as a discipline?
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Are people's names considered morphemes of a language?
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Problems with the adoption of the Latin script in English?
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Where can I find a free text corpus for the Hindi language?
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What does linguistic under-determinacy mean?
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Determining the head of the sentence
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Split a sentence using nltk and python
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Two sentences with the same meaning
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What's the etymology of the Albanian word for hello, “tungjatjeta”? [closed]
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Are there any languages that don't have/use auxiliaries?
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Could the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been deciphered without the Rosetta Stone with modern tech?
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Languages which changed their writing direction
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Auxiliaries in generative grammar
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How would someone begin translating an unknown language?
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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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Are there minimal pairs between normal length and long vowels in English?
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Languages with only a gender-neutral word for aunt/uncle
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How can I do data augmentation for text classification?
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When should I use /ə/ or /ɪ/ and why does it seem like they're not used correctly?
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Is there evidence that “proto-” languages actually existed?
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How common is it for languages to use the plural for zero?
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How is an archiphoneme represented on the phonetic level?
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What is this 'OBL'?
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Different Meaning Arabic ْلَمْ تَكْتُب (lam taktub) and ْمَا كَتَبَت (maa katabat)? [closed]
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What are the go-to resources on historical linguistics?
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Are all complex words polymorphemic?
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Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesn't?
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Do animals have foreign languages?
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How is French written in telegraphy and other settings in which diacritics are not possible?
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How exactly are noun classes different to classifiers?
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Do any languages mark social distinctions other than gender and status?
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Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?
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Is there a general tendency among East Asian languages toward simple syllable structure?
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Is English the only Indo-European language without gendered nouns?
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What part of speech is 'two o'clock' in this sentence? [closed]
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Why do adjectives come before nouns in English?
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What are some grammatical features found only in modern languages?
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Agglutinative vs. Analytic. What's the difference?
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Does “You” or “Unicorn” begin with a vowel sound
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What ex­act­ly is “lev­el shift” in trans­la­tion the­o­ry by Cat­ford?
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Please describe the environment in which the following sounds occur and write a rule to describe the sound patterns [closed]
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The origin of the term 'verb'
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