user53100‭

I've often seen that "we can only look back in time a short distance in linguistics". What prevents linguistics from deducing information far in the past? Is this limit something that can be pushed...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by user53100‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Should questions asking for resources be on-topic? I imagine questions of the form, "Resources for learning language X" or "Grammar reference for language X" or "Free online English-Language X dict...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by user53100‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Geoffrey Khan's (open access!) book, "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew"1, discusses the pronunciation of Hebrew according to the Masoretes of Tiberias, who were active about ...

posted 4y ago by user53100‭  ·  edited 4y ago by msh210‭

"kommen" is the past participle (perfekt particip) of komma. From this site, Perfekt particip is used as adjective and declines almost the same way as adjectiv. [sic] An example given in the site...

posted 4y ago by user53100‭

Why is the -an in "شُكْرًا" (shukran) pronounced? I've heard it pronounced this way in Modern Standard Arabic and in colloquial. In both, I'd usually expect the -an to not be pronounced, especiall...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by user53100‭  ·  edited 4y ago by user53100‭

This article discusses "Greater Etymology" (الاشتقاق الكبير) in Arabic, which "recognizes the common meanings words with different base letters share," as opposed to "Lesser Etymology" (or morpholo...

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posted 4y ago by user53100‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

I asked a native speaker and the following are his responses representing his theory, edited slightly (posting here with permission). N.B. He emphasises many times that this is speculation. Also, A...

posted 4y ago by user53100‭  ·  edited 4y ago by user53100‭