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

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

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

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

Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions

Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?

Why are certain there-sentences infelicitous in English?

Why is “ß” not used in Swiss German?

What languages lack personal pronouns, and why?

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

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

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

Why was מֹשֶׁה‎ transliterated as [moʊzɨz]?

Is there a language whose writing is 100% phonemic?

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

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

Does Japanese have determiners?

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

Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child

Paucal number without singular

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

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

How powerful is literacy to slow down language change?

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

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

Are there any languages that mark nouns as mass?

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

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

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

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