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How to split pronouns 'whom' and 'whose' into morphs?
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V-to-I lowering and split IP hypothesis
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Expressions derived from Italian mafia
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Deducing a rule out of set of examples
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'today announced' vs. '*yesterday announced'
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Derivation of the Indo-European lemma *bʰréh₂tēr ‘brother’
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French corpus with frequency list of POS tagged words (not lemmas)
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How can the Arabic word "Hijr" be translated as "perception" or "understanding" or "intellect" [closed]
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What are known PIE stock phrases?
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How are Baltic and Slavic languages related?
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Is Classical Hebrew an Indo-European language?
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Turkish: the -DIK participles and an information loss
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Is the Schwa in English rounded or unrounded?
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Why do we use the names we do for grammatical genders?
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What does the tongue do to discriminate sibilant vs. non-sibilant?
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Why does German require extra commas that may be considered useless by speakers of other languages?
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The classification of morphemes
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How different is Old Persian / Avestan / Farsi from each other?
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Are there languages which require aspiration for some stops?
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What exactly is Mental Grammar and how is it different from Regular Grammar?
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Is it really impossible for two different languages to have the exact same set of phonemes?
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How is a svarabhakti different from a vowel
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Do Linguists pronounce PIE roots
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Why does “&” look nothing like e and t
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When did Aspirated Consonants appear in English?
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What do letters in square brackets, V, C, U in words mean?
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Textbooks in Formal Semantics / Montague semantics
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Are there modern languages without standardized spelling? If not, why?
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Where does the "t" in some words like "night" and "fight" come from?
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Why does "g" in Middle English "boga" become "w" in Modern English "bow"?
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How to understand semelfactive aspect of a verb? How is it varied/similar to iterative aspect?
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Do auxiliary verbs always express different aspect/mood/tense?
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Is *grandmother* a compound?
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Constituency grammar or Phrase Structure Grammar?
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ð and ð̞: is there a dental approximant?
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Third-person singular suffix [eth] in Middle English
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Ncuti Gatwa is, according to Wikipedia, pronounced /ˈʃuːti ˈɡætwɑː/ - where is the NC orthography derived from?
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What sort of sentence is a request?
Awarded May 5 at 20:41
For the 'ch' sound in Chilean Spanish, do these symbols differ?
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Any free, good and extensive word lists for languages other than English?
Awarded May 3 at 17:47
Did the Dutch "zee" (sea) and "meer" (lake) diverge or did the German "das Meer" (sea) and "der See" (lake) diverge from a shared linguistic heritage?
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Aren't all spoken languages tonal?
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Besides logics, what mathematical tools are used in the study of linguistics?
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What is a proper term for the contamination of a language?
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Is 'clothes' countable or uncountable? [closed]
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Why /əl/ in English sounds like [o]?
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Native English speakers: worse understanding of other accents?
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Type of pronouns, bound/free
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Is the similarity between the Arabic word Gayyid and the English word Good due to a borrowing?
Awarded Apr 25 at 22:06
French - when is 'r' pronounced as /x/ and when is it pronounced /ʁ/?
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Which language has verb/noun compounding features?
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Do natively bilingual people have accents in one or both of their languages?
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How does the word "thunder" get the letter "d"?
Awarded Apr 17 at 3:02
Why was "zh" picked to represent /ʒ/, and where does it come from?
Awarded Apr 13 at 14:25
/ / vs [ ] - when to use which? [duplicate]
Awarded Apr 12 at 11:27
What type of trilled R shows up in Thai?
Awarded Apr 10 at 19:33
scansion of a iambic trimeter
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How can a syllable be marked?
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What do "titles" and "Beijing" stand for?
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How does 'Theme/Patient' differ from 'Experiencer'?
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