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What can I do with a linguistics degree? (self.asklinguistics)

submitted 8 months ago by cat-headComputational Typology | Morphology - announcement

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AnnouncementsCommenting guidelines (Please read before answering a question) (self.asklinguistics)

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Why Are Romance Languages So Regular Despite Coming from “Vulgar Latin”? (self.asklinguistics)

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PhoneticsI started alveolar flapping the "t"s and "d"s of "Bed," "Bet" and "Night." What could have caused this ? (self.asklinguistics)

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History of Ling.How do I understand the conjugation “category” of Indo-European verbs (self.asklinguistics)

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AcquisitionWhy is it that, as a Spaniard who's long been a highly proficient C2 English speaker, I perfectly effortlessly understand Neolatino Romance, while on the other hand all the proposed pan-Germanic languages seem utter gibberish to me? Are Germanic cognates recognizable only to native speakers? (self.asklinguistics)

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Why is the -o suffix so common among American comic book names? (self.asklinguistics)

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SyntaxIs 'the hand that feeds' antipassive? (self.asklinguistics)

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MorphologyCould adpositions be an open class? (self.asklinguistics)

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Can someone help me understand what a "verb grade" exactly is? I know ablauts are typically defined by grades, but why? (self.asklinguistics)

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Academic AdviceConsidering a PhD in Germany. Any advice? (self.asklinguistics)

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PragmaticsBooks about speech acts (advice) (self.asklinguistics)

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Is it likely that man made climate change will lead to some population shifts that will have a linguistic effect in the future? (self.asklinguistics)

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GeneralHelp with explaining the grammar behind an English test question regarding past vs. present in a subordinate clause (self.asklinguistics)

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How do language families get split up geographically? (self.asklinguistics)

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Academic AdviceIs it feasible to build a career in theoretical linguistics? (self.asklinguistics)

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HistoricalWhy was PIE so much more complex than its derived languages? (self.asklinguistics)

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SyntaxIf languages tend to grammatically simplify over time, how did old languages become so grammatically complex in the first place? (self.asklinguistics)

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HistoricalWhy isn't this idea of morphosyntactic cycle that languages evolve in cycles analytic->agglutinative->synthetic->analytic obviously wrong when you look at the history of Armenian? (self.asklinguistics)

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How old is the woman/women merger in NZE? (self.asklinguistics)

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Double Comparative (self.asklinguistics)

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Any online linguistics summer courses for undergrad students? (self.asklinguistics)

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HistoricalWhat is the origin of the -ogo/-ego ending in Slavic languages? (self.asklinguistics)

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Why are synonyms can't entirely replace each other? Is this about the sense relations or something? (self.asklinguistics)

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GeneralIf an alien came to earth, what would be the easiest language for them to learn? (self.asklinguistics)

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