Questions tagged [grammar]
A body of rules, features, or generalizations which reliably differentiate between grammatical and ungrammatical constructions.
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I read the Quran syllable by syllable but I don't know where a word begins and where it ends.If I knew that I could translate them from the dictionary [closed]
Salaam aleikum. I have learned the entire Arabic alphabet. And also the harakat and long vowels. But I have a big problem. I read the Quran syllable by syllable but I don't know where a word begins ...
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meaning of yek in Persian or Farsi [closed]
I know that in Persian "Man yek sag daraam" means "I have a dog", where:
Man = I, sag = dog, daraam = have. What is the purpose of yek? Is it a/an, the indefinite article?
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How does the Tree-Structure look like for this sentence? [closed]
I'm practicing drawing tree structures and I can't figure out how the tree for the following sentence looks like:
Peter thinks that John has disclosed their plan to the police.
I don't really ...
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In English, noun phrases within a relative clause cannot be further relativized, but this is allowed in some cases in Japanese
Japanese: Revised edition by Shoichi Iwasaki:
In English, noun phrases within a relative clause cannot be further relativized, but this is allowed in some cases in Japanese.
If there is such a ...
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How definitive are “patterns” in grammar across languages?
So when you learn a new language from English like Spanish in school, they make it seem like "hey there's these clear patterns and rules once learned you'll master spanish". So you learn the verb ...
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Which noun phrases within relative clauses can be [further relativized]?
The term [further relativized] appears in an academic monograph. See:
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/19839/13923
This doesn't seem to be a generally-used term, but I'll use it here.
This ...
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Is it *incorrect* to use single digit numerals? [closed]
I had an argument with someone recently and figured I should find out, so I went on a research spree and could not find any authoritative answers on the subject.
I am sure there are many disputes ...
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Combine flexibility + ism , how ? thanks [closed]
I want to use the word flexibility in an "ism" form. I have two possible forms in mind but sure which one is better:
flexibilism
flexibiltyism
Which of the above forms is correct?
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What are other 'tacit perfectiveness/imperfectiveness event markers' in Russian? [closed]
I have discovered that making a communicative wishing constructions (like in 'have a good trip' or 'merry Christmas') in Russian, they use different structures depending on perfectiveness/...
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Is there evidence of a disposition for certain races to learn certain languages? [closed]
For example would those of Chinese descent have a disposition to learn Chinese? Chinese is a quite different language being logographic then say English which is alphabetic.
Another example would be ...
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Chains of nouns in English
English is becoming so indifferent to the proper roles of parts of speech that I have been finding longer and longer chains of nouns in written materials. I am under the impression that chaining ...
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Why was 'grammar' chosen to signify the model of linguistic competence, when 'grammar' was already strikingly polysemous?
Page 5 of (R.L. Trask, Robert McColl Millar's) Why Do Languages Change? (2010 Rev. ed), expounds that 'grammar' originally didn't mean its linguistical meaning (quoted at the bottom): no surprise, as ...
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a question about grammar and syntax [closed]
can anyone provide me a short critique for the following analyses of the sentence. About their advantages and disadvantages and provide evidence if possible!!thank you.
I have no idea about this.
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Are the hoor in Jannah aaqil? [closed]
In Arabic, humans, jinn and angels are considered "aaqil" ("Ų¹Ų§ŁŁ"), meaning they are sentient or thinking beings. Everything else is considered "gair aaqil" ("ŲŗŁŲ± ...
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What are all the primary variants of these languages? [closed]
In order to make the transliterator more precise, it looks like I am going to need to distinguish between different versions of a language. My question is, is this the complete list of languages and ...
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What is the 'best' language, and by what metrics, why those metrics…? [closed]
This is sort of the old question that you'd see whispered about a lot in Western academia, and shouted out by linguists of the past, who had their own circumstances, own canons, own less-connected (?) ...
