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What did the Greeks and Romans believe about language relationships?

historical-linguistics latin indo-european history greek asked Feb 26, 2014 at 18:09

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Free online analysis engine?

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Which languages conflate (imperfective) past and irrealis, and why?

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"qua dabatur liberum aeris spatium" in a letter of Erasmus

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Has any language ever borrowed an interrogative or relative pronoun?

indo-european pronoun borrowing list-of-languages uralic asked Aug 20, 2014 at 3:11

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What is known or believed about the origin of Semitic-type root-and-template morphology?

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apud + place name vs. locative

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Are there instances of free indirect discourse in Latin or Greek?

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Classical Latin translations from extant Greek sources (or vice versa)

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What non-Semitic languages have templatic non-concatenative morphology?

morphology asked Oct 7, 2013 at 4:05

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Why is Edenics not recognized as a serious linguistic theory?

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What does the Latin abbreviation "A. O. R." stand for?

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Why do ablatives of the 3rd declension sometimes end on -e, at other times on -i?

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Does "ad" have its origin in Hebrew/Semitic languages?

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Is there a language without gender in third person pronouns?

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Is there a relationship between the word amor (love) & mors (death)?

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Are Indian languages distinct or are they just different dialects?

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Are the two cums related?

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Is there a Latin equivalent for this particular nsfw term?

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Descriptive example of Cicero's style

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Burn this Shirt

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How did mundus come to mean both world and clean?

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How much Lithuanian and Romanian languages are mutually intelligible?

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Why is the passive participle in Matthew 10:1 rendered as active in English?

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Why "impressa" in Æneid IV.659–60?

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How do I express total surprise or perplexity when asking a question?

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What is the meaning of _voci populi_ in this quote?

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Where do the plurals of locus come from?

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Numbering of persons

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The Latin word “Have” rather than “Ave” as a translation of the Greek word Χαῖρε?

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Evidence about pronunciation of ευ and αυ in Homeric Greek?

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Why didn't Latin grammarians ever rectify their Latin mistranslation of "(ptōsis) aitiatike" as "accusare"?

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The Meaning of Scelerisque?

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Is "mens semita tua" the correct translation for "mind your path"?

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Can a subjunctive verb ever be modified by οὐ? (Greek)

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What language branch of PIE does Kartvelian belong to? (Georgian language)

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Is there a name for the type of word that the word, “scarecrow,” is? (a transitive verb conjoined with its object)

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Accusative equals nominative for neuter words – how universal is this and why?

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Earliest recognition that Germanic and Romance languages are related

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"Solvitas perambulum": Is this real Latin?

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