Are grammatical genders, as a rule, consistent across the Indo-European languages which use them?
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posted by obloquy
on Dec 4, 2012 -
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I'm looking for academic linguistic papers and/or books on classification of sentence structures. (Should I turn on the languagehat signal?)
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posted by Mr. Bad Example
on Sep 13, 2011 -
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Taxonomy (or just a list) of English grammatical constructs suitable for use as a checklist for a second language learner?
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posted by amtho
on Apr 26, 2011 -
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Can you reccommend a good, in-depth primer on grammar? I don't mean where to use a comma, but rather a clear definition of, for example, nominative, accusative, dative and genitive cases. What exactly are tense, mood, person, number, and voice. That kind of thing.
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posted by Nothing
on Jun 6, 2010 -
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I'm kicking around a concept for a theoretical piece I hope to work on in the near future, dealing with the way "femininity" and the "female" category are conceived of linguistically. Help me find some empirical data!
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posted by parkbench
on Mar 24, 2009 -
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What are some other examples of using 'an' in front of a non-vowel like some do with 'an historic...'?
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posted by afx114
on Feb 22, 2008 -
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I need . . . adjectives! Is there a *scannable* online dictionary or some way in which I can search through giant lists just for the adjectives?
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posted by Dee Xtrovert
on Oct 18, 2007 -
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Is there a term for mangling two words to create a new word or term?
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posted by suki
on Jul 17, 2007 -
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Hawaiian has only eight consonants. Pirahã purportedly has even fewer phonemes and no numerals. What other languages have properties which would be considered unusual by Indo-European language speakers?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Nov 16, 2006 -
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Which is correct, and why?
(a) "None of those were..."
(b) "None of those was..."
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posted by cortex
on Jul 14, 2005 -
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