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A quick search gives a regular pattern in the form of trisyllabic laxing Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or d...

posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

What arguments are used to answer this question? Does it stem from a lack of agreement over how to define a pronoun? Essentially, yes. Even your own Wikipedia quote has the infamous [citation ...

posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

I've been studying German lately, and came across something that sparked my curiosity: The way to say "me too" in German is "ich auch" - that is, "I too". A shallow glance at other Germanic languag...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

I recently stumbled upon this wikipedia page and it got me thinking. Take a look at the following table (terms are lifted from the Wikipedia page) W (interrogative) H (proximal) T (medial)...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

tl;dr, English just borrowed other languages' suffixes I shouldn't really come as too much of a surprise to know that the irregularity comes from borrowing endings from multiple different language...

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

It's built just like the normal present perfect. I have had it. Have you had it?

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

Consider the following sentences: "She was against his joining the team." "She was against his joining of the team." "She was against him joining the team." Instinctively, the first just so...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Eric Isaac‭

I'm sure a lot of people have heard it before: the statement "All Chinese words are one syllable (or character)." And because someone is going to ask, no, this is not just a Western thought - my Ma...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Sigma‭

Generally speaking, German verbs inflect with the following table Person Inflection Example ich -e sage, arbeite du -(e)st sagst, arbeitest er/sie/es -(e)t sagt, a...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

As far as my knowledge of Japanese goes, there are two ways to form polite negative forms of verbs, the direct conjugation ～ません and the plain negative conjugation ～ない with です added. Take for insta...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

After researching a bit more, I found this StackExchange answer. Their answer is very informative, and includes a partial translation of a Japanese research paper (which I'm sadly not at the level ...

posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

The final forms of ‭ך, ן, ף, and ץ are the original forms. From a Quora answer to What's the origin of the final (sofit) forms for some of the Hebrew alphabet? Four of the five “sofit” letters ...

posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

A certain question has twice now been hit by the dreaded "You can find this information by Google" I've noticed this has occurred quite frequently, especially link-only answers which I delete as a...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

This has been implemented [Citation needed] As a more academically focused site, it might be useful to mark answers as lacking sufficient citations to back the answer up authoritatively. This g...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by fedorqui‭

Many quantity words trigger agreement with their object rather than themselves. For instance, syntactically, "a lot, "a bunch", "an amount" seem to all be singular. However, as a native speaker, "T...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Jirka Hanika‭