Questions tagged [examples]
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What is the most archetypal phonemic-tone system?
As user6726 put it in this answer:
There is a misguided tendency to use Chinese as the standard of comparison for tone system, but actually Chinese is the best known but one of the least-...
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Are nouns ever a closed class?
For pretty much any grammatical category, I can think of a language in which it's a closed class. Japanese has closed classes of verbs and (verb-like) adjectives, for example, while Swahili has a ...
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Is there a standard way to refer to an example language?
What is the John Doe or John Smith of language names for when a linguist is making an example?
We’ve all seen
Suppose that in language 𝑥 . . .
and
Imagine a language . . .
and in another ...
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House vs. home in other languages
In American English, one's house refers to his or her physical dwelling, while one's home is so much more. A home is a building, a city, even a country where one feels he or she belongs most. It's a ...
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Need more examples/ sources, for Ceq Wong language animal prefixes
This is just one, I Googled but couldn't find much, any, in fact not even something else than this.
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“I should have bought a present. Susie did”: is this an example of anaphora?
I am attending a class on English Linguistics and right now we are discussing the cohesion device of reference, which means that one item in text points to another element for its interpretation.
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Where to find lists of examples of linguistic phenomena
I'm looking for resources, either print or online, which compile lists of examples of linguistic phenomena, be they phonological, morphological, syntactic, or semantic. (My main purpose for these ...
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On the search for an example sentence from a German textbook
Once I read three sentences build of made-up words with correct German declination and conjugation, so you were able to parse this sentence although it beared no semantic meaning. It was something ...
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Could anyone give examples of context-sensitive sentences that cannot be generated by context-free rules?
Could anyone give examples of context-sensitive sentences that cannot be generated by context-free rules?
To clarify, they are generated by rules including at least one that is in the form αβγ→αψγ, α,...
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Examples of Phonological Variation / Morphological Structure Interacton
English coronal stop deletion, or TD-Deletion, is a variable process whereby word final /t/ and /d/ in clusters are deleted.
soft -> sof
A phonological rule for TD-Deletion could be given as:
{t,...
