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What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?

answered Jan 28, 2013 at 21:00

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Are Old French and French mutually intelligible?

answered Jan 30, 2014 at 9:09

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What are the counterpart of Genotype and phenotype in a language?

answered Sep 4, 2013 at 11:27

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What empirical evidence can be produced that all syntactic structure is binary branching?

answered Mar 30, 2014 at 23:46

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What is minimalist about the minimalist program?

answered Mar 24, 2014 at 13:32

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What is the difference between "Topic" and "Focus"

answered Jan 13, 2014 at 14:43

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Where did Latin and its descendants retain a case system most recently?

answered Sep 26, 2013 at 7:42

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Are there any languages that don't have/use auxiliaries?

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 9:45

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Isn´t there a contradiction between 'feature-checking' and 'no tampering'?

answered Jan 7, 2015 at 14:24

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Universal "grammar" for mathematics

answered Dec 25, 2013 at 15:42

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Are phrase structure grammar and/or dependency grammar legitimate theories for describing the cognitive structure of syntax?

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 13:17

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What motivates / allows preposition stranding in English, but disallows it in other languages, like Mandarin?

answered Dec 2, 2013 at 14:51

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Usage of definite articles in Germanic and Romance languages

answered Sep 26, 2013 at 8:13

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How are topic-phrases represented in X-bar trees

answered Sep 18, 2013 at 14:00

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How do formal theories analyse the syntax of polysynthetic languages?

answered Mar 18, 2015 at 20:02

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Grammar framework features that are not supported cross-linguistically

answered Mar 31, 2015 at 21:11

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Chomsky's Universal grammar and Evolution of human languages

answered Dec 1, 2014 at 9:44

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Would it be possible to discover through linguistics if any non-human languages influenced known language families?

answered Apr 2, 2014 at 19:49

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Pro-Drop Typology in Indo-European Languages

answered Jun 29, 2014 at 15:07

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Can a language have both nominative/accusative and ergative/absolutive syntactic systems in its syntactic structure?

answered Sep 3, 2014 at 11:55

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Language shift because of contact or interest

answered Apr 2, 2014 at 21:06

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Syntax-semantics interface

answered Jul 27, 2015 at 15:27

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In cultures where genders speak different language varieties, how do genders quote each other?

answered Sep 26, 2013 at 8:37

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Are there any specific traits in Italian which make it different from other Romance languages?

answered Nov 28, 2013 at 13:18

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Are doubled questions in sign languages arbitrary?

answered Jan 28, 2013 at 10:38

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Why do certain verbs not accept the ergative schema whereas they accept the mediopassive (middle) one?

answered Sep 5, 2013 at 13:40

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Contingent grammaticality

answered Mar 4, 2014 at 10:15

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Head to head movement

answered Sep 1, 2014 at 13:12

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What languages have been documented using Minimalism?

answered Apr 15, 2015 at 22:27

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Am I a native English speaker? (born I Hungary, lived in US from age 3)

answered Apr 20, 2014 at 15:55

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What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?

Are Old French and French mutually intelligible?

What are the counterpart of Genotype and phenotype in a language?

What empirical evidence can be produced that all syntactic structure is binary branching?

What is minimalist about the minimalist program?

What is the difference between "Topic" and "Focus"

Where did Latin and its descendants retain a case system most recently?

Are there any languages that don't have/use auxiliaries?

Isn´t there a contradiction between 'feature-checking' and 'no tampering'?

Universal "grammar" for mathematics

Are phrase structure grammar and/or dependency grammar legitimate theories for describing the cognitive structure of syntax?

What motivates / allows preposition stranding in English, but disallows it in other languages, like Mandarin?

Usage of definite articles in Germanic and Romance languages

How are topic-phrases represented in X-bar trees

How do formal theories analyse the syntax of polysynthetic languages?

Grammar framework features that are not supported cross-linguistically

Chomsky's Universal grammar and Evolution of human languages

Would it be possible to discover through linguistics if any non-human languages influenced known language families?

Pro-Drop Typology in Indo-European Languages

Can a language have both nominative/accusative and ergative/absolutive syntactic systems in its syntactic structure?

Language shift because of contact or interest

Syntax-semantics interface

In cultures where genders speak different language varieties, how do genders quote each other?

Are there any specific traits in Italian which make it different from other Romance languages?

Are doubled questions in sign languages arbitrary?

Why do certain verbs not accept the ergative schema whereas they accept the mediopassive (middle) one?

Contingent grammaticality

Head to head movement

What languages have been documented using Minimalism?

Am I a native English speaker? (born I Hungary, lived in US from age 3)