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Meaning of star/asterisk in linguistics
Sep 21 '11 at 0:49
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Deciphering a handwritten script
Jan 13 '13 at 8:35
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Which Romance languages have reflexes of the Latin nominative in nouns?
Sep 16 '11 at 5:05
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Why is it that Latin was more “successful” in the western part of the Empire than in the eastern part?
Oct 20 '11 at 5:22
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Why is 1/12 called an “uncia” in Latin?
Jun 20 '13 at 17:36
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How many of Latin words have Greek roots?
May 14 '13 at 1:05
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Hebrew “shemen” versus Latin “semen”
Aug 22 '12 at 13:55
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Why does English have both Latin and Greek origins
Jun 11 '13 at 21:30
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The Origin of the Word 'God'
Jul 10 '12 at 17:14
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Is the German “conjunctive” the same as the “subjunctive” of other languages? If so why the different name?
Oct 30 '11 at 1:56
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What is the difference between a copula and a transitive verb?
Mar 21 '12 at 3:43
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In languages with grammatical gender, how do they determine the gender when a new word has been created?
Jan 8 '13 at 5:13
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Is “double positive meaning negative” a common phenomenon?
Nov 8 '11 at 11:58
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Indo-European prepositions: whence did they come?
Sep 1 '12 at 14:25
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Do the words “angst” and “anxiety” share a common root?
Apr 30 '16 at 15:47
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Why is prescriptivism criticized?
Sep 15 '11 at 3:20
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Is there a named common ancestor of Germanic and Latin besides “Indo-European”?
Jun 12 '13 at 3:33
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How is grammaticality judged in dead languages?
Oct 20 '11 at 0:43
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Why do we have interest in (dying) language preservation?
Mar 3 '12 at 7:50
11
What is the history of the word “addict”?
Jun 26 '13 at 3:31
11
What rule governs the vowel alternations in Latin caput/capit-/-cep(t)-/-cipit-/-ciput?
Jan 10 '13 at 4:40
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If similar phonemes are pronounced the same, will this be difficult to understand for a native speaker?
Oct 24 '11 at 7:23
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Aramaic compared to Spanish
Apr 12 '12 at 18:11
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Did case systems dissappear to make embedding easier?
Mar 3 '12 at 6:59
10
The stylistic effect of chiasmus in Latin
Jan 21 '13 at 13:05
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Rules of forming past participle tense and perfect tense of a verb in Latin?
Oct 24 '13 at 14:22
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Has the word ending *dition any independent meaning?
Nov 2 '12 at 20:21
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What are some of the disadvantages of learning a language through book-study as opposed to immersion?
Mar 29 '13 at 17:37
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Why does the English complementizer “that” look like the relative pronoun “that”?
Nov 17 '13 at 4:51
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Is the word E “able” related to the suffix E “-able”?
Feb 21 '13 at 6:09
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