Stack Exchange Network

Stack Exchange network consists of 176 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.

Visit Stack Exchange
Loading…
  1. 0
  2. +0
    • Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site
    • Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have
    • Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site
    • About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company
    • Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us
  3. Log in Sign up
  4. current community

    • Linguistics
      help chat
    • Linguistics Meta

    your communities

    Sign up or log in to customize your list.

    more stack exchange communities

    company blog
Linguistics
  1. Home
    1. Questions
    2. Tags
    3. Users
    4. Unanswered
Profile Activity
Meta user
Network profile
brass tacks

Reputation

14,173
  • 14.2k
  • 8.6k
  • 3.1k
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
  • 2021

Next tag badge

ipa
109/100 score
16/20 answers

Badges

1
33
70

Newest

 Revival

Next badge

69/80
Deputy

Impact

~299k
people reached
46 posts edited
69 helpful flags
1,054 votes cast
Summary Answers Questions Tags Badges Bookmarks Bounties Reputation All actions

651 Bookmarks

Votes Activity Newest Views Added
68
votes
12
answers
23k
views

What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?

syntax english grammar linguistic-typology pronunciation
Dec 19 '18 at 17:41 iBug 357
62
votes
10
answers
13k
views

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

historical-linguistics morphology language-change indo-european
Jul 25 '19 at 5:13 Jenny Blank 21
53
votes
13
answers
13k
views

Do unschooled people use cases correctly, e.g. in Germany and in Russia?

language-change sociolinguistics cases german russian
Aug 27 '19 at 11:11 Anixx 5,650
40
votes
9
answers
11k
views

What is word order used for in “free word order” languages?

syntax cross-linguistic linguistic-typology word-order
Nov 27 '16 at 6:38 Ken Graham 263
39
votes
10
answers
3k
views

Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions

historical-linguistics morphology language-change
Aug 25 '16 at 18:49 Adam Bittlingmayer 6,403
36
votes
5
answers
3k
views

Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?

cross-linguistic prosody perception production speed
May 25 at 20:10 jk - Reinstate Monica 20.1k
35
votes
4
answers
2k
views

Why are certain there-sentences infelicitous in English?

syntax english pragmatics
Sep 29 '11 at 12:37 kgr 559
34
votes
2
answers
12k
views

Why is “ß” not used in Swiss German?

orthography written-language germanic-languages german
Dec 23 '18 at 2:41 alecxe 403
31
votes
5
answers
6k
views

What languages lack personal pronouns, and why?

japanese pronoun word-classes
Sep 23 '19 at 16:00 Xwtek 191
26
votes
5
answers
1k
views

Which Romance languages have reflexes of the Latin nominative in nouns?

historical-linguistics list-of-languages latin romance-languages romanian
Dec 16 '18 at 18:59 Community♦ 1
25
votes
9
answers
5k
views

Are there any languages or cultures that have genderless given names?

gender names list-of-languages
Feb 25 '19 at 15:43 Lưu Vĩnh Phúc 662
25
votes
8
answers
5k
views

American English : are [ə] and [ʌ] different phonemes? (schwa vs. chevron)

phonology phonemes american-english allophones
Apr 29 at 17:42 Jose 1
24
votes
4
answers
665
views

Why was מֹשֶׁה‎ transliterated as [moʊzɨz]?

names transliteration hebrew
Jul 24 '12 at 19:38 Community♦ 1
22
votes
23
answers
21k
views

Is there a language whose writing is 100% phonemic?

phonetics orthography list-of-languages
Jul 19 at 23:20 Alexandre Xavier Casanova Domi 1
22
votes
3
answers
1k
views

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

morphology cases inflection adpositions
May 18 '18 at 14:40 Artemij Keidan 2,292
21
votes
4
answers
3k
views

Why do Polish and Belarusian have an atypical greeting if compared to other Slavic languages?

syntax evolution polish
Feb 18 '13 at 15:43 ymar 172
21
votes
8
answers
7k
views

Does Japanese have determiners?

japanese determiners
Apr 17 at 21:14 nivvf 9
20
votes
2
answers
31k
views

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

phonology phonetics
Mar 31 '19 at 15:26 Carl Dombrowski 292
20
votes
3
answers
2k
views

Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child

terminology cross-linguistic arabic turkish kinship-terms
Sep 27 '19 at 12:51 Community♦ 1
20
votes
2
answers
1k
views

Paucal number without singular

morphology grammatical-number paucal linguistic-universals
Nov 18 '11 at 1:25 Community♦ 1
20
votes
6
answers
8k
views

Why is constituency needed, since dependency gets the job done more easily and economically?

syntax phrase-structure dependency-grammar
Nov 20 '18 at 6:24 Greg Lee 12.1k
20
votes
3
answers
1k
views

Are there any fundamental differences in personal pronoun acquisition across languages?

language-acquisition psycholinguistics pronoun reference-request
Sep 23 '19 at 17:25 Community♦ 1
19
votes
1
answer
1k
views

How powerful is literacy to slow down language change?

language-change sociolinguistics literacy
Jan 13 '12 at 12:50 Floating Tone 2,060
19
votes
9
answers
3k
views

Are there languages that distinguish between inclusive and exclusive “or”?

semantics list-of-languages conjunctions
Aug 16 '17 at 6:28 bytebuster 7,881
19
votes
7
answers
3k
views

Are the Japanese and Korean subject particles known to be related in any way, including by Sprachbund?

etymology cross-linguistic japanese korean particles
Aug 5 at 11:03 Mitsu Hadeishi 21
18
votes
4
answers
2k
views

Are there any languages that mark nouns as mass?

morphology syntax grammatical-number semantics countability
Nov 26 '14 at 12:44 user0721090601 866
18
votes
1
answer
403
views

Are there any languages that don't permit instrumental subjects?

syntax
Oct 2 '12 at 6:23 Mr. Wizard 86
18
votes
2
answers
6k
views

What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?

phonetics orthography consonants russian palatalization
Jun 10 '19 at 10:55 Yellow Sky 12.5k
17
votes
4
answers
5k
views

Do any languages mention the top limit of a range first?

syntax list-of-languages numbers
Aug 7 '19 at 21:20 Joshua Taylor 147
17
votes
3
answers
2k
views

Is Slavic [zima] (“winter”) derived from “snow”?

etymology
Apr 30 '19 at 23:55 bytebuster 7,881
1
2 3 4 5
…
22 Next
Linguistics
  • Tour
  • Help
  • Chat
  • Contact
  • Feedback
  • Mobile
Company
  • Stack Overflow
  • For Teams
  • Advertise With Us
  • Hire a Developer
  • Developer Jobs
  • About
  • Press
  • Legal
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
Stack Exchange
Network
  • Technology
  • Life / Arts
  • Culture / Recreation
  • Science
  • Other
  • Stack Overflow
  • Server Fault
  • Super User
  • Web Applications
  • Ask Ubuntu
  • Webmasters
  • Game Development
  • TeX - LaTeX
  • Software Engineering
  • Unix & Linux
  • Ask Different (Apple)
  • WordPress Development
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Android Enthusiasts
  • Information Security
  • Database Administrators
  • Drupal Answers
  • SharePoint
  • User Experience
  • Mathematica
  • Salesforce
  • ExpressionEngine® Answers
  • Stack Overflow em Português
  • Blender
  • Network Engineering
  • Cryptography
  • Code Review
  • Magento
  • Software Recommendations
  • Signal Processing
  • Emacs
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Stack Overflow на русском
  • Code Golf
  • Stack Overflow en español
  • Ethereum
  • Data Science
  • Arduino
  • Bitcoin
  • Software Quality Assurance & Testing
  • Sound Design
  • Windows Phone
  • more (28)
  • Photography
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Graphic Design
  • Movies & TV
  • Music: Practice & Theory
  • Worldbuilding
  • Video Production
  • Seasoned Advice (cooking)
  • Home Improvement
  • Personal Finance & Money
  • Academia
  • Law
  • Physical Fitness
  • Gardening & Landscaping
  • Parenting
  • more (10)
  • English Language & Usage
  • Skeptics
  • Mi Yodeya (Judaism)
  • Travel
  • Christianity
  • English Language Learners
  • Japanese Language
  • Chinese Language
  • French Language
  • German Language
  • Biblical Hermeneutics
  • History
  • Spanish Language
  • Islam
  • Русский язык
  • Russian Language
  • Arqade (gaming)
  • Bicycles
  • Role-playing Games
  • Anime & Manga
  • Puzzling
  • Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair
  • Board & Card Games
  • Bricks
  • Homebrewing
  • Martial Arts
  • The Great Outdoors
  • Poker
  • Chess
  • Sports
  • more (16)
  • MathOverflow
  • Mathematics
  • Cross Validated (stats)
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Biology
  • Computer Science
  • Philosophy
  • Linguistics
  • Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Computational Science
  • more (10)
  • Meta Stack Exchange
  • Stack Apps
  • API
  • Data
  • Blog
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram

site design / logo © 2021 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under cc by-sa. rev 2021.3.5.38726