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What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?
Jan 28 '13 at 21:00
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Are Old French and French mutually intelligible?
Jan 30 '14 at 9:09
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What are the counterpart of Genotype and phenotype in a language?
Sep 4 '13 at 11:27
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What empirical evidence can be produced that all syntactic structure is binary branching?
Mar 30 '14 at 23:46
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What is minimalist about the minimalist program?
Mar 24 '14 at 13:32
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Where did Latin and its descendants retain a case system most recently?
Sep 26 '13 at 7:42
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What is the difference between “Topic” and “Focus”
Jan 13 '14 at 14:43
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Isn´t there a contradiction between 'feature-checking' and 'no tampering'?
Jan 7 '15 at 14:24
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Would it be possible to discover through linguistics if any non-human languages influenced known language families?
Apr 2 '14 at 19:49
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Grammar framework features that are not supported cross-linguistically
Mar 31 '15 at 21:11
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How do formal theories analyse the syntax of polysynthetic languages?
Mar 18 '15 at 20:02
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Chomsky's Universal grammar and Evolution of human languages
Dec 1 '14 at 9:44
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Pro-Drop Typology in Indo-European Languages
Jun 29 '14 at 15:07
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Are phrase structure grammar and/or dependency grammar legitimate theories for describing the cognitive structure of syntax?
Jan 6 '14 at 13:17
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Language shift because of contact or interest
Apr 2 '14 at 21:06
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Universal “grammar” for mathematics
Dec 25 '13 at 15:42
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Are there any languages that don't have/use auxiliaries?
Mar 17 '14 at 9:45
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What motivates / allows preposition stranding in English, but disallows it in other languages, like Mandarin?
Dec 2 '13 at 14:51
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Usage of definite articles in Germanic and Romance languages
Sep 26 '13 at 8:13
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How are topic-phrases represented in X-bar trees
Sep 18 '13 at 14:00
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Syntax-semantics interface
Jul 27 '15 at 15:27
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Can a language have both nominative/accusative and ergative/absolutive syntactic systems in its syntactic structure?
Sep 3 '14 at 11:55
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Are there any specific traits in Italian which make it different from other Romance languages?
Nov 28 '13 at 13:18
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In cultures where genders speak different language varieties, how do genders quote each other?
Sep 26 '13 at 8:37
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What languages have been documented using Minimalism?
Apr 15 '15 at 22:27
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in the definion of government, why can't we allow asymmetrical c-command while we accept symmetrical c-command?
Oct 13 '14 at 8:31
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Binding theory - coindexes that produce grammatical sentences
Sep 26 '14 at 11:45
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Head to head movement
Sep 1 '14 at 13:12
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Am I a native English speaker? (born I Hungary, lived in US from age 3)
Apr 20 '14 at 15:55
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Contingent grammaticality
Mar 4 '14 at 10:15
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