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for philosophical questions concerning the nature, origins, and usage of natural language
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The variety of English used in the United States of America.
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A set of letters that represent phonemes, used to write one or more languages.
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A collection of words in (a) specific language(s), often containing usage information.
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A grammatical category expressing the time when a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.
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A syntactic theory that postulates intermediate constituents below the phrase level (XP) but above the word level (X), known as "X-bar" (written "X̅" or "X′").
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Development of languages, language families, etc, through time with influences by other languages or pre-existing ones.
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patterns that occur universally across natural languages, such as properties that all human languages share or implications about the relation between the occurrence of one feature and the other
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Phrase structure is a widespread approach to the analysis and exploration of sentence structure.
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Structure and meaning of morphemes and how they interact with the grammatical structure of utterances.
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Dependency grammar, often abbreviated as DG, is a particular approach to the syntax of natural languages. DGs view words as directly linked to each other, whereby the links are directed. Phrases consi…
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A modality of language, contrasted with written language, whistled language or sign language.
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The Semitic languages are a branch of related languages originating in the Near-East and a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
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a word or set of words by which a person, language or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.
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A class of words denoting temporal or spatial relations or other semantic roles. They are placed before the noun phrase they modify.
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Language-specific rules governing the combination of phonemes.
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Notations used to represent the graphemes of one script using another one.
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Questions relating to lexicons: the catalogue of a language's words.
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An East Slavic language spoken mainly in Russia and neighbouring territories. For non-linguistic questions about the Russian language, visit our sister site Russian Language Stack Exchange (or Русский…
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Groupings of languages which can all be traced back to a common ancestor language they evolved from, for instance the Romance languages are all descended from Latin.
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What the body (mouth, throat, nose, lungs) does to pronounce a sound or 'phone'. Se also phonetics.
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Questions about languages that use visual transmitted sign patterns, mostly used by deaf people.
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A class of words that modify the meaning of a verb, adjective, another adverb, clause, or sentence. Examples in English are "quickly", "often" or "today". Not to be confused with adverbials (sometimes…
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Websites, pages, and downloadable content which provide resources useful to linguists.
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Proto-language for the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages
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How often a linguistic element occurs relative to other linguistic elements.
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An American linguist who founded the field of Generative Linguistics.
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