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Is there any language that has different morphology for individual-level and stage-level adjectives?
Russian is such a language, although this feature is not followed by speakers as consistently as, for example, in Spanish.
The majority of the Russian qualitative adjectives have two forms, short and ...
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Is language change universal, ongoing, and arbitrary?
I will first point out that SE is designed for people to ask specific questions that get specific answers which are either right or wrong. It is not designed to people to vaguely invite to chat and ...
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register variation: unbalanced corpus sample
The number of words is less important than the number of mi and shi present in your text.
First, you should determine how many mi and shi exist in each of your corpus. It is not necessary to ...
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register variation: unbalanced corpus sample
There are quantities that scale with the text size, like absolute counts, and there are quantities that are independent of the text size, like frequencies. You will need to think of the computation of ...
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Do absolute synonyms exist?
Synonymy is a spectrum
Two words can be regarded as synonymous just due to a relation in meaning. Though usually, words referred to as "synonyms" are those who mean the same thing. Thing is, ...
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