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35 votes
7 answers
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How do I format an interlinear gloss for HTML?

21 votes
5 answers
1k views

What method do linguists use to rate language competence?

14 votes
5 answers
948 views

Outside of Modern Hebrew, do any previously dead languages have native speakers again?

12 votes
3 answers
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What is an example of a syntactic structure that can't be represented by a BNF grammar?

11 votes
3 answers
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How can adjective-noun order in French be explained by parameter theory?

10 votes
2 answers
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How exactly does an obviate proximate system work?

10 votes
3 answers
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What are the alternate morphological typologies to isolating, agglutinative, fusional, polysyntehtic, etc.?

9 votes
2 answers
1k views

IDE for context free grammars for natural languages?

5 votes
1 answer
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How should grammatical errors be treated in parsing and tokenisation?

5 votes
1 answer
124 views

What sort of criteria are used to deem a language description complete?

4 votes
1 answer
626 views

What's the difference between irrealis and evidentials?

2 votes
1 answer
437 views

Diagnostic tests for basic word order of subject-verb-object in a topic-comment language?

2 votes
2 answers
182 views

What are the various rules to deal with "markedness" if the speaker doesn't know?

1 vote
1 answer
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How do you do an interlinear gloss for an analytic language?