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Why does linguistics focus on spoken languages rather than written ones?

answered Oct 13, 2011 at 22:27

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Is the countable vs mass noun distinction common outside English?

answered Oct 10, 2011 at 17:28

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How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article, clitic or affix?

answered Oct 13, 2011 at 1:48

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How do linguists deal with losing normal intuition?

answered Feb 16, 2012 at 23:33

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Are there languages which use the negation of 'odd' to denote 'even'?

answered Nov 7, 2011 at 3:55

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The paucal to denote between three to six individuals

answered Sep 20, 2011 at 13:58

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Does Japanese have determiners?

answered Sep 20, 2011 at 14:14

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How exactly are noun classes different to classifiers?

answered Sep 25, 2011 at 17:55

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What are some examples of recent studies investigating strong linguistic determinism?

answered Oct 6, 2011 at 17:01

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What are the motivations for which direction syntactic trees are built in (top down or bottom up)?

answered Jan 28, 2012 at 0:13

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What is the origin of the "hierarchy of projections", the language system or (some) conceptual system?

answered Jan 18, 2015 at 17:51

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Is the very concept of the phoneme disputed?

answered Sep 22, 2011 at 15:10

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Is there a difference between plurality in semantics and in morphology?

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Why does linguistics focus on spoken languages rather than written ones?

Is the countable vs mass noun distinction common outside English?

How is definiteness expressed in languages with no definite article, clitic or affix?

How do linguists deal with losing normal intuition?

Are there languages which use the negation of 'odd' to denote 'even'?

The paucal to denote between three to six individuals

Does Japanese have determiners?

How exactly are noun classes different to classifiers?

What are some examples of recent studies investigating strong linguistic determinism?

What are the motivations for which direction syntactic trees are built in (top down or bottom up)?

What is the origin of the "hierarchy of projections", the language system or (some) conceptual system?

Is the very concept of the phoneme disputed?

Is there a difference between plurality in semantics and in morphology?