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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 do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesn't?

Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?

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

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

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

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

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?

Did Romance languages evolve in North Africa?

What language came before Proto-Indo-European?

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

Origin of articles in European languages

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

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

Are there other pairs of languages that are as close grammatically despite not being in the same language family as Korean and Japanese?

What are the reasons to count Armenian as an Indo-European language?

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

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?

Are there any studies on some English passive verb constructions currently being replaced by new intransitive senses?

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?