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What did the injunctive mood of Sanskrit do?
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What is the origin of the paucal form?
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Difference between adverb and preposition in English?
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Why are two versions of a word written in the same IPA pronounced differently?
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Etymology of the Biblical Greek words "sigao" and "sige"
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Do you have a vowel trapezoid for Spanish?
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Are there minimal pairs for "l" vs "ll" in Albanian?
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Are there any existing (indigenous) European languages with aspirated/unaspirated versions of consonants which are different phonemes?
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The difference between [w] and [u] (especially between the states of the lips)
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Why is the word "wherefore" not "whatfore" and the word "therefore" not "thatfore" and related anomalies
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Did Proto-Indo-European put the adjective before or behind the noun?
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Was the Latin "b" pronounced like "v" in ancient times?
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What are the title capitalization rules in some languages?
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How are the three phonetically distinct Arabic h's transcribed in English?
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Why doesn't Arabic have present tense "to be"?
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The difference between the phonemes /p/ and /b/ in Japanese
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Do standard corpus analysis tools like AntConc and Wordsmith work for foreign languages?
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Why do words like 'irregardless' and 'conversate' form?
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What is the relation among connotation, semantics, and pragmatics?
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Minimum population for language survival
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Are there languages without the /j/ sound as in English "yellow"?
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Do we know if the Dutch vulgar/slang term "stront" is related to the Italian vulgar/slang term "stronzo"?
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Grimm's Law and PIE in general
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Are there any Latin and (ancient) Hebrew words with common origins?
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What are the different schools of PIE reconstruction?
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Symbol or abbreviation for a particle?
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Egyptian Arabic to IPA conversion?
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Where can I find SPAD-T?
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Does linguistics have a concept of "set phrase" with a meaning differing from "idiom"?
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Why does Spanish have obsolete tenses?
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What explanatory advantages does so-called "type theory" have?
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Swahili stress with two vowels in a row, how does it work?
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Is there any language which distinguishes between “un” as in “not” and “un” as in “inverse”?
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How does the reaction against gender-specific pronouns relate to a languages' use of gender?
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Are there any "universal" aspects to "adjective sequence"
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Do all languages distinguish between persons and non-persons?
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What languages are expected to "die off" in the near future and why?
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Any languages that don't have consecutive letters?
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Technical term for "stacked Arabic script"?
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History of perfect tenses
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Rules of forming past participle tense and perfect tense of a verb in Latin? [closed]
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Where does the * sign of ungrammaticality come from?
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How similar are Low German and Dutch?
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Any reasons for unexplained centumization in Balto-Slavic?
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Book recommendations for Second Language Acquisition
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Mapping between Uchen, Devanagari and Lantsa help
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What are Georgian harmonic clusters phonetically?
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How do English people understand the grammatical cases? [closed]
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Not affected by Grimm's Law?
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I'm having trouble with my syntax tree and wanted some help for a project! [closed]
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Is it possible for two Semitic (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew) words with the same triliteral root to have different origins?
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Are Hindi "Bigul" (बिगुल) and English "Bugle" cognates?
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Why English is missing some phoneme sequences (/aʊv/ or /aʊp/)
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What is the the etymological origin of the name Calvin?
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Are there languages that don't have "mom"?
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Describing continuity and change (like mou and mada in Japanese)
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Languages with masculine nouns for various female entities, or feminine nouns for male entities
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Why is the English name for Bruges the same as the French despite that it's a Flemish city?
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Why did Proto-Indo-European (probably) have such little vocab?
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How to find a given text's complexity?
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