Activity for Keelan
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| Comment | Post #287270 |
The common term for this is *semantic agreement*. It may help you search for more info. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #286733 |
@#53458 it doesn’t cover German in any detail, no, so it’s entirely possible / probable that it’s oversimplified. This is common in more typological papers. Multiple developments can have happened in parallel and strengthened each other, though. I mainly posted this for its broader perspective on ot... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286733 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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A: Why does German use the third person plural for the second person polite? You may be interested in Head, Brian F. (1978). 'Respect Degrees in Pronominal Reference', in Joseph H. Greenberg, Charles A. Ferguson, and Edith A. Moravcsik (eds.), Universals of Human Language, vol. 3: Word Structure. Stanford: Stanford University Press. On pages 167–171 he discusses use of the... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #286522 |
Yes, the current example looks like an expletive pronoun to me (as in *It is she who carries my baby*). Not sure if that’s the right terminology, but I would replace the first example with Monica’s example. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277332 |
https://twitter.com/dietweeterei/status/1479375453374791680 (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285121 |
Good point. I just made an observation, and didn’t consider a ban as a possible solution. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285369 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Why did linguists choose 'Patient' (noun) to denote this Thematic Role? I don't have any references for the first coinage of the term Patient. However, in grammars in the Latin tradition it is still customary to find the Latin terms agens and patiens rather than Agent and Patient. If those terms are earlier than their English counterparts, this explains it. Latin patior ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285121 |
I was thinking about that too. If there is interest, we could open a meta post to collect ideas for coverage areas in answers and draw the top voted one whenever we need a new one. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285121 |
You're right, [done](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/285132)! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285121 |
@#53458 I also don't have any prediction, but I know that Wikipedia has similar events to improve coverage of some field, and I vaguely remember something like this from Stack Exchange but can't find it now.
What I tried to explain in my post was that the reason I would not post such questions is ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285121 |
That’s a good point. What do you think about the events I mentioned? Apart from subfield events you can also have events for specific languages, of course. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285121 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: How can we grow this community? I am active on the Linguistics Stack Exchange but would really like to leave there completely. I see this site as a potential alternative, but haven't become active here yet. So in a way you could say I am one of those people that are you are trying to get a hold on :) Here are some observations. ... (more) |
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