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What did the Greeks and Romans believe about language relationships?

asked Feb 26, 2014 at 18:09

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4 answers

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Which languages conflate (imperfective) past and irrealis, and why?

asked Apr 19, 2014 at 2:20

14 votes

5 answers

679 views

Has any language ever borrowed an interrogative or relative pronoun?

asked Aug 20, 2014 at 3:11

13 votes

4 answers

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What is known or believed about the origin of Semitic-type root-and-template morphology?

asked May 19, 2014 at 0:17

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4 answers

817 views

Ontological status of syntactic transformations

asked Oct 19, 2013 at 2:09

12 votes

2 answers

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What non-Semitic languages have templatic non-concatenative morphology?

asked Oct 7, 2013 at 4:05

11 votes

1 answer

483 views

Languages with subordinate imperatives?

asked Dec 17, 2013 at 21:41

10 votes

1 answer

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What types of evidentials tend to be used for statements about religion, mythology, etc.?

asked Jan 7, 2014 at 22:44

10 votes

4 answers

566 views

Origin of *-k- "extension" in (aorist of) some IE verbs?

asked Sep 16, 2013 at 16:36

10 votes

2 answers

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Did PIE *h3 cause voicing in any other words than the "drink" word?

asked Oct 15, 2015 at 18:39

9 votes

2 answers

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Did Uralic borrow basic vocabulary from PIE, and if so why?

asked Aug 9, 2014 at 19:51

9 votes

1 answer

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Quantitative metathesis in other languages than Ancient Greek?

asked Oct 8, 2013 at 3:18

9 votes

3 answers

2k views

Discontinuous morphemes in Indo-European languages

asked Nov 19, 2013 at 19:18

8 votes

1 answer

245 views

Diachronic sources of negators

asked Feb 8, 2014 at 20:24

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2 answers

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Why can't these English sentences passivize?

asked Feb 10, 2014 at 21:28

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4 answers

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Why are "first-person inclusive" forms called "first-person"?

asked Oct 7, 2013 at 4:15

8 votes

4 answers

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Place feature metathesis

asked Dec 6, 2015 at 18:57

8 votes

1 answer

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c- in Irish clann "offspring"

asked Sep 20, 2015 at 0:33

8 votes

1 answer

283 views

Are PIE suHnús "son" and snusós "daughter-in-law" related?

asked Dec 13, 2020 at 2:14

7 votes

2 answers

341 views

Good recent historical grammar of Sanskrit, preferably in English?

asked Aug 29, 2017 at 19:51

6 votes

2 answers

702 views

Are there languages that disallow initial vowels and lack glottal stop?

asked Jun 26, 2015 at 19:08

6 votes

1 answer

766 views

In Latin protases, what's the different between the future and future perfect tenses?

asked Jun 18, 2014 at 3:42

6 votes

2 answers

878 views

Sources for etymologies of Ancient Greek proper names and placenames?

asked May 28, 2014 at 0:40

6 votes

1 answer

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What are these NPs, syntactically and semantically?

asked Oct 24, 2013 at 17:50

5 votes

4 answers

385 views

Adverbial free relative clauses, in early Indo-European languages and generally

asked Oct 30, 2013 at 16:23

5 votes

2 answers

210 views

Possessive constructions signifying semantic equation: term? distribution? explanation?

asked Aug 28, 2013 at 19:42

5 votes

0 answers

229 views

Why the E- in Etruscan?

asked Mar 1, 2014 at 21:22

5 votes

1 answer

625 views

Etymology of Greek Enualios

asked Mar 16, 2015 at 0:00

5 votes

2 answers

293 views

Is "indirect object" syntactically definable or useful, in English or generally?

asked Nov 24, 2018 at 1:48

4 votes

1 answer

390 views

Sound files for Lithuanian pitch accent distinctions?

asked Jun 19, 2016 at 19:40

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48 Questions

What did the Greeks and Romans believe about language relationships?

Which languages conflate (imperfective) past and irrealis, and why?

Has any language ever borrowed an interrogative or relative pronoun?

What is known or believed about the origin of Semitic-type root-and-template morphology?

Ontological status of syntactic transformations

What non-Semitic languages have templatic non-concatenative morphology?

Languages with subordinate imperatives?

What types of evidentials tend to be used for statements about religion, mythology, etc.?

Origin of *-k- "extension" in (aorist of) some IE verbs?

Did PIE *h3 cause voicing in any other words than the "drink" word?

Did Uralic borrow basic vocabulary from PIE, and if so why?

Quantitative metathesis in other languages than Ancient Greek?

Discontinuous morphemes in Indo-European languages

Diachronic sources of negators

Why can't these English sentences passivize?

Why are "first-person inclusive" forms called "first-person"?

Place feature metathesis

c- in Irish clann "offspring"

Are PIE suHnús "son" and snusós "daughter-in-law" related?

Good recent historical grammar of Sanskrit, preferably in English?

Are there languages that disallow initial vowels and lack glottal stop?

In Latin protases, what's the different between the future and future perfect tenses?

Sources for etymologies of Ancient Greek proper names and placenames?

What are these NPs, syntactically and semantically?

Adverbial free relative clauses, in early Indo-European languages and generally

Possessive constructions signifying semantic equation: term? distribution? explanation?

Why the E- in Etruscan?

Etymology of Greek Enualios

Is "indirect object" syntactically definable or useful, in English or generally?

Sound files for Lithuanian pitch accent distinctions?