Linguistics Weekly Newsletter - Friday, June 27, 2014

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Top new questions this week: How does one gloss a case that has both locative and genitive meaning? In languages where a single case affix expresses both loc and gen, how is such a case best labelled? An example would be: house-GEN.LOC 'in the house'; he-GEN.LOC house-3POSS 'his house' cases morphosyntax interlinear-gloss   asked by żaba 4 votes answered by curiousdannii 0 votes Is there any fusional language where pronouns and nouns share the same declension? Some analytic languages sometimes use the same prepositions for nouns and pronouns,e.g. 'I'm proud OF him' vs. 'I'm proud OF his book'. Agglutinative languages may use the same affix for nouns and … morphology pronoun   asked by Nahald 4 votes answered by curiousdannii 3 votes What gave rise to the manual alphabet for Latin characters in Japanese Sign Language? I am aware of the fact that this question is rather specific, but anyway I would like to give it a try. Japanese Sign Language has three manual alphabets: one for representing kana-characters, and … japanese sign-languages alphabets   asked by onionics 4 votes Jedediah → Jebediah: how? Possibly, the name Jebediah derives from the name Jedediah. If so, then what phonological phenomenon is this an example of, and what are other examples of it? terminology phonology historical-linguistics   asked by msh210 3 votes answered by Jeremy Needle 4 votes Is there a functional value to vowel harmony? I have a very basic understanding of vowel harmony. This is probably why I cannot answer this question myself. Why would a language evolve to have vowel harmony? Is it just that the speakers … vowel-harmony   asked by user4786 3 votes answered by flow 1 vote Pronunciation in languages from East Asia of words that are Japanese loanwords in English In English, most loanwords from Japanese are pronounced similarly to the Japanese word. It isn't an exact match, for example with "karaoke" the pronunciation of the second "a" differs between English … borrowing chinese japanese   asked by Andrew Grimm 3 votes answered by Yoshi Asao 5 votes Arabic word stress in the presence of an elided hamza ("hamzat al-waSl") Word stress in MSA follows a precise set of rules, which are described consistently in various Arabic grammar textbooks, e.g. Ryding's "A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic" (2005). However, … arabic morphosyntax   asked by Evan Aad 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: The relationship between "orange" the colour and "orange" the fruit This is something that bugged me before I studied linguists, and it still does - why is the word "orange" so often used for both the colour and the fruit cross-linguistically? Every language I've … etymology semantics cross-linguistic colour-terms   asked by LaurenG 13 votes answered by Alain Pannetier 21 votes A comprehensive list of conceptual metaphors Is there a comprehensive list of conceptual metaphors? (Either man-made, crowdsourced or based on data-mining / corpora analysis.) By a conceptual metaphor I mean a relation in the spirit of George … computational-linguistics dictionary   asked by Piotr Migdal 2 votes answered by Dominik Lukes 1 vote Can you answer this? Resources to Chomsky's Universal Grammar I need a list of resources to Chomsky's theory of universal grammar and generative grammar that help me from zero to recent-research level [I myself do formal mathematical logic and am not totally … universal-grammar generative-grammar chomsky   asked by user4970 1 vote

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