Linguistics

Popular Question

 Popular Question
Question with 1,000 views. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
Awarded 1302 times.
Find which alphabet is this [closed]
Awarded 8 hours ago
Are there languages without vowel reduction?
Awarded yesterday
Can Someone Identify This Diacritic?
Awarded Jun 30 at 19:56
What are multi-word concepts (technical terms) called and how are they found?
Awarded Jun 29 at 13:35
What non-Semitic languages have templatic non-concatenative morphology?
Awarded Jun 27 at 11:06
Did Latin “cum” get replaced in French by “avec” because “con” sounded obscene?
Awarded Jun 26 at 20:42
How to do the Xhosa clicks
Awarded Jun 25 at 18:26
When did the Celtic languages die out in Spain?
Awarded Jun 25 at 4:11
Origin of current order pattern in English/German
Awarded Jun 24 at 6:57
Does the letter p in a word mean that the word is not Germanic?
Awarded Jun 23 at 12:48
Did Hebrew writing evolve from Egyptian hieroglyphs?
Awarded Jun 23 at 10:15
What were the westernmost and easternmost Indo-European languages in c. 1350 CE?
Awarded Jun 22 at 4:11
Resource for German minimal pairs
Awarded Jun 19 at 21:25
Difference between particle and adverb in English
Awarded Jun 19 at 10:56
Why can you say “I am not sure whether it's raining” but not “I am sure whether it's raining”? [closed]
Awarded Jun 16 at 17:10
Detection if input sentence represents an incomplete sentence?
Awarded Jun 15 at 5:47
Is it a coincidence that words ending in -ooch in English tend to be colloquial? If not, why?
Awarded Jun 12 at 13:58
Why do the same phonological changes happen in multiple unrelated languages?
Awarded Jun 11 at 18:06
How can PSG describe the vertical dimension of sentence structure? [closed]
Awarded Jun 10 at 5:09
Comparing frequencies of two corpora
Awarded Jun 8 at 23:42
What's the difference between a modifier and a complement?
Awarded Jun 7 at 7:34
Are Japanese honorific お and ご prefixes, particles, or both?
Awarded Jun 5 at 1:07
When did Spanish develop perfect aspect?
Awarded Jun 4 at 14:11
How to draw tree structures in Microsoft Word?
Awarded Jun 3 at 23:01
If romanization can be reversed (back to original script) in some languages
Awarded May 30 at 8:28
What do languages without a schwa vowel have in common?
Awarded May 25 at 15:46
How to perform word by word translations?
Awarded May 24 at 8:41
Split sentence into phrases and words
Awarded May 22 at 14:49
Are there languages where a change of character casing can lead to a different meaning of a word?
Awarded May 21 at 19:47
What is a “Phonetic Language”?
Awarded May 21 at 16:49
Pragmatics Wastebasket
Awarded May 19 at 20:51
Is there a name for when a 'c' becomes an [s] sound in words like rusticity, when originally it was a 'c' in rustiC?
Awarded May 19 at 12:51
Declensions in Polish
Awarded May 16 at 2:06
Agglutination in Proto-Indo-European
Awarded May 15 at 7:31
What software is used to make these X-bar trees?
Awarded May 12 at 12:30
Is syllable a phonetic or a phonological concept?
Awarded May 12 at 2:40
How to identify context independent (self-consistent) sentences?
Awarded May 9 at 2:03
Any suggestion for Classical Arabic language online dictionary or PDF?
Awarded May 8 at 23:46
Word Boundaries and Compounding
Awarded May 8 at 13:25
Why is the Romanian tense system so “simple”, compared to other Romance languages?
Awarded May 6 at 18:33
Does an affinity between languages necessitate that the speakers be ethnically related?
Awarded May 5 at 0:02
Why must an AdvP have at least one AdvP as a Daughter Node?
Awarded May 4 at 18:04
Can words have multiple, different origins
Awarded May 4 at 13:16
Did case systems dissappear to make embedding easier?
Awarded May 3 at 21:50
How would one make a sentence without using “words”
Awarded May 2 at 1:49
When people converse in sign language, why do they make whispering sounds?
Awarded May 1 at 18:56
Representing consonants and vocal graphically
Awarded Apr 28 at 13:58
Did Romance languages evolve in North Africa?
Awarded Apr 26 at 19:48
Apical postalveolar approximant [ɹ̺] and retroflex approximant [ɻ]: What is the difference?
Awarded Apr 26 at 18:40
Why is Ivrit not considered an artificial language?
Awarded Apr 25 at 1:23
Why is C-selection called 'subcategorisation' and not only 'categorisation'?
Awarded Apr 23 at 22:51
How do we know for sure a transliteration is lossless?
Awarded Apr 23 at 9:11
Is there a formal classification of types of word origins?
Awarded Apr 23 at 2:05
Sound between “i” and “y” in IPA Vowel chart
Awarded Apr 22 at 22:33
Subject prefixes in Bantu languages
Awarded Apr 21 at 8:34
Are there other languages, besides English, where the indefinite (or definite) article varies based on sound?
Awarded Apr 21 at 1:04
What is the history of the International Phonetic Alphabet?
Awarded Apr 20 at 10:40
The soft Spanish “t” (other languages are available)
Awarded Apr 19 at 16:34
Why are there words meaning both “breath” and “life/spirit” in so many languages?
Awarded Apr 17 at 3:10
Why are the word-initial consonant clusters /tl/ and /dl/ absent in English?
Awarded Apr 16 at 23:30
1
2 3 4 5
…
22