Questions tagged [vocabulary]
The set of words within a language.
9
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
5
votes
0answers
111 views
Parent–child kinship terms for same- or different-sex relationships
Does anybody know of a natural language in which the kinship terms used for parents and children are governed not by the gender of the individual but whether or not the two people in the relationship ...
3
votes
0answers
103 views
Did any indigenous American languages have/develop a word for “Native American”?
Obviously the political landscape of the Americas was a hugely complex thing during the period of European colonization, and what was true of one Native American group was almost never true of all of ...
2
votes
0answers
149 views
Does Japanese have as many English-derived words as English has French-derived words?
According to current corpora and other tools used by language researchers, does the current vocabulary of Japanese already contain as many words borrowed/derived from English as the number of English ...
1
vote
0answers
73 views
What are typical child and adult vocabulary growth rates?
What are typical vocabulary growth rates (say, in words / day) for children and adults in their native languages? Has there been enough research to plot vocabulary growth rate vs age?
I'm especially ...
1
vote
0answers
52 views
an open source lexicographical framework
I am looking for a lightweight open source framework for lexicographical experiments: building vocabularies, converting from one type to another, merging, dealing with multilingual issues, ...
google ...
0
votes
1answer
174 views
Why are the names of languages always adjectives? (e.g. “English”, “French”, “Spanish”)
I notice that in English (as well as Spanish, and perhaps other European languages), the name of a language is the same word as the adjective form of the country or region name.
In English, this rule ...
0
votes
0answers
48 views
Expressions of internal vs external directionality in English, Latin or Greek
For physical placement "up vs down" meets this meaning in relation to the Earth (even though the intended meaning is relative to the top vs bottom of an observer's visual field) and "...
0
votes
0answers
72 views
Languages Or Dialects Not Distinguishing Between Taste And Smell
Are there any languages or dialects not distinguishing between taste and smell?
Possible duplicate of this older and much more general question.
0
votes
0answers
61 views
Vocabulary Wordlist for the elementary school English
I am curious if there is a written English corpus that offers word frequency lists for the elementary stage vocabulary, i.e. K-5 grades? Something like Dr. Edward Fry's sight words, which is updated ...
