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Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?

Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?

Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc?

What are the fundamental differences between Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics?

Are there grammatical analyses of languages that are extremely different from IE grammar?

What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages?

How do linguists distinguish between case endings and postpositions, especially in languages which have both and/or have no traditional grammar?

What is “case”?

What divides semantics from pragmatics?

Why is /h/ called voiceless vowel phonetically, and /h/ consonant phonologically?

How powerful is literacy to slow down language change?

What language came before Proto-Indo-European?

Is there a well-established metric to measure the effectiveness of a parsing algorithm?

Why are many ancient languages so complicated compared to many modern languages?

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

Is there a term for the syntax difference between English “I like you” and Spanish “Tú me gustas”?

Origin of articles in European languages

Have we observed classes changing from open to closed, or vice versa?

What is the reason for the double negation found in some languages?

Massive Open Online Courses on linguistics

Is “Kent” in Tashkent of Turkic origin or Indo-European?

What does “generative” mean? Can a linguistic theory be non-generative?

How to distinguish a polysynthetic language from other languages? When is something a word?

Is there any agglutinative Indo-European language?

What is markedness?

Are there natural languages with the following properties (seen in Esperanto)?

Why do the same phonological changes happen in multiple unrelated languages?

How do purely statistical machine translators deal with different word orders?

What does a computational linguist actually do?

Automatically Converting Natural Language to First-Order Logic