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What is Double Zero Grade?

German seems to use different terms for Schwundstufe and Nullstufe, but English uses zero grade indiscriminately.
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What is "sub-Indo-European"?

Apparently Leiden had a conference on "sub-Indo-European". Google isn't very helpful, resulting in a dead link: Sub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods and Evidence - Leiden University 30.08.2021 …
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What is Double Zero Grade?

The double zero grade *ǵʰi-m- is preserved in the compounds with numerals. (de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin 2013: hiems) E.g. *dwi-ǵʰim-os “two years old”, literally “of two winters” (en.W …
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Examples of ‘kangaroo etymologies’ that actually happened

But are there any known cases of this kind of thing really happening? "this thing" is far too broad. The general idea is Folk Etymology. The word itself is a neat example. Folk or German Volk (Volks …
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What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word ha...

The expected answer seems to be Folk Etymology or a less biased euphemism like Reanalysis, as per Wikipedia a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a mo …
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What's the term for changing a word's part of speech while maintaining the root?

Changing a words PoS without changing anything else is conversion. This may include changing position in the sentence. Using a borrowed word that was derived in the donor language may still count as d …
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What does Axel Schuessler mean by "area word"?

This answer is still incomplete! Chinese is grouped in the Sino-Tibetan language family as determined by experts on account of certain features that are unlikely to be coincidental, pointing to a deep …
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What's the name of the principle that derives the sound of a symbol from the name of the thi...

What do we call it when the Initial sound of a word, eg. beth vel sim. "house", is assigned to a symbol of that word, eg. the floorplan of a house(?), to use the sign as the unique representation of t …
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If mora are potentially sufficient to describe language, then what do syllables add, in theory?

Following the answer to the recent Question, Why is/was Gokana claimed to lack syllables?, I don't really understand the difference. I have heard of moras in the context of poetry before and didn't gr …
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Is there a word for the opposite of jargon?

What you are asking for is idioms. I have not read the examples yet. We'll see. "Idiom" can be defined variously. In the sense that is pertinent here I understand it in the broad sense of an idiomatic …
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"Indifferent" reference of specific indefinites?

Replacing "He" in the antecedent by "one of two boys" would be ambiguous, because mere repitition could mean the other boy. "the/this/that one of the two boys" makes a difference, to begin with. There …
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On an apparent " masstermization" phenomenon in contemporary informal French: " il y a de la...

I'm hardly speaking french, so my suggestion may seem unusual, but take jolie as the headword and nana as an adjective, morpheme or ... Thus you would have to write jolie-nana with a hyphen, except th …
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Is there a word in which the concept and its complement is expressed?

If this is a thing, as the other answers imply, then German sprechen "speak", from *spreg- could be seen as composed of *pr-, *per (whence pro, for), *eks- (whence "ex"; reconstructed variously) ei …
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Is there a way to refer to the semantic similarity-based counterpart to *eggcorn*?

Wikipedia mentions mistake as a linguistic term in the context of language learners, found at Error (linguistics) (via Malapropism) citing H. Douglas Brown (1994) for a definition a failure to uti …
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Is an empty morph a lexeme?

It's a Grammatical Particle and for sake of the argument assume a rather broad meaning for grammatik (ie. that which is well said or written). In one sense it's a clitic like the s in "it's raining", …
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