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There is little consensus for the etymology of "ivrit." And I can find no discussion as to the potential connection between "ivrit" and "berit", and more closely, "livrit," as found...
Asked on 10/23/2021 by user29231
1 answerFor background, I'm a systems developer, not a linguist. There's a tendency to dismiss any grammar rules in my line of work namely because of how "strict" (read: dumb, simple)...
Asked on 03/04/2021 by Dragas
3 answerbrand new here with (I hope) a simple question. Yesterday I had my first linguistics class and the professor mentioned a difference between phonemic and phonetic transcription. He said for...
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1 answerEven though many languages are still written in Devanagari, they have a problem of schwa deletion. But that problem doesn't exist in Sanskrit. I know that almost...
Asked on 02/10/2021 by Akshat Sharma
2 answerI teach French to people from various background and first languages, but one thing that most English speakers do (even very proficient ones sometimes) is adding R sounds in words....
Asked on 02/06/2021 by Noemie
1 answerIs Serbian u from "buva" flea a Proto-Slavic ъ or l from *blъxa?...
Asked on 01/08/2021
1 answerImaging that you have discovered a stone with written text in an ancient (or alien!) language that doesn't resemble any known language. Is there a way to show that some...
Asked on 01/05/2021 by Misha Monahov
0 answerConsider the following sentence:(1) I don't know that John kissed Mary.When I assert this sentence, am I contradicting myself? The reason is as follows: following Stalnaker's view on the factivity...
Asked on 01/02/2021
1 answerSome typical dative governing verbs in many IE case-inflecting languages are "help", "give" etc.. Are they mainly inherited from PIE or are they developed within each language? If the latter,...
Asked on 12/07/2020 by wodemingzi
1 answerMany non-binary people now request that new third person pronouns (neopronouns) be used to refer to them, for example xe or ze. These have not been...
Asked on 12/01/2020 by curiousdannii
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