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Is "be" always a copular verb or there are instances of it being the predicate?

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Why do Croatian and Italian contain the same grammatical endings for nouns and verbs?

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What is the difference between case and adpositions?

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Do dead languages borrow words?

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What is the best romanization of ח?

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When we talk about front and back vowels in the vowel chart, does it refer to the position of the tip of the tongue or the whole body of the tongue?

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Why is the question mark like this in Hebrew language?

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Apparent exceptions to the sound law f -> h in old Spanish

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Why does English have words from Latin and none from Celtic?

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Is -s for plurals in Spanish a false cognate with English -s?

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Are there any Latin and (ancient) Hebrew words with common origins?

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"STARBUCKESE" syntax problem

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Why couldn't one combine rules from languages for sentences with the same intended meaning?

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Limits of historical linguistic reconstruction

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Writing systems that do not preserve spoken order

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Why aren't conlangs very widely used?

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How to find source for cuneiform sign PAN 𒉼?

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In english, what's the origin of pronouncing the `e` as /i/ or /e/?

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What's the difference between primary and secondary stresses?

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Is triple branching necessary in making a syntax tree for 'the girl in the room waved to me'?

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Why is the proto-italic reconstruction of "corpora" "*korpezā"?

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Are there commonly accepted graphic symbols for common declension forms?

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/ / vs [ ] - when to use which?

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Why do IPA pronunciations pronounce phones in two ways? 1st on their own. 2nd with a vowel /ɑ/ or schwa in front?

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Languages with masculine nouns for various female entities, or feminine nouns for male entities

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Why were there two words for love in Proto-Indo-European?

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Why are the Egyptian and Hittite versions of Tutankhamun's name different?

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What happened to *kweþana?

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How do we know for sure a transliteration is lossless?

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Is Panini really the father of Linguistics?

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