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The study of structural features, diversity and commonalities among the world's languages.
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How do caseless ergative languages work?
Abkhaz is ergative and caseless. Verbs have slots that express their arguments by prefixes. An example of an intransitive verbs is с-цоит "I go" (the prefix in the first slot signals the subject's per …
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Are ditransitives (or tritransitives?) cross-linguistically attested?
Ditransitives of the English type are very rare. Most languages use either case marking on nouns to signify grammatical relations or polypersonal head-marking. By "English type" I mean that both objec …
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Defining Linguistics
It's valid insofar as linguistics studies both. The two issues are closely related. To express "I have seen him" one can use four words (as in English) or one word. Morphology, syntax, and lexical rel …
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Are there languages with simple morphology and free word order?
Yes, there are. Head-marking languages generally allow for free word order in case the language is caseless. Macedonian pops to mind, a language without cases on nouns but with free word order. Gramma …
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Which languages have zero markers of comparative degree that coexist with non-zero comparati...
Aymara. However the nonzero marking may have emerged under the influence of Castilian.
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Which indigenous languages have marked Ancestral/Mythological Past in grammars?
Kawesqar is an example of such a language. In fact, quite a few languages have tenses that tend to be used in myths, stories, fairy tales, etc.
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In what ways does English syntax compensate for its low number of inflectional morphemes?
English uses syntactic configurations that need to be learnt. According to some linguists, configurationality is a scale from completely fixed word order (no language has it) to completely free word o …
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How to distinguish a polysynthetic language from other languages? When is something a word?
In affixal polysynthetic languages such as Inuktitut, Yupik and Greenlandic the criterion is pretty simple, a word is composed of exactly one lexical stem and a number of bound morphemes. Cross-lingui …
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What grammatical features do SOV languages often share?
One must be careful in making generalising statements, for example, languages without (morphological) case needn't be SVO or OVS, just look at Abkhaz. However there are typically some tendencies or pr …
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What does Eastern Aramaic have to say about "(definite) articles are acquired, not lost"?
It’s not a universal. In fact, it’s most probably a cycle, as with other constructions undergoing grammaticalisation. In many Slavic languages, the definite or indefinite forms became the only ones us …
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