melboiko

Bochum, Germany

Brazilian grad student working on Japanese dialects with a Dutch teacher in Germany.

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On the idea that Classical Chinese may not be direct ancestor of modern Chinese languages

historical-linguistics reference-request chinese writing asked May 16, 2013 at 16:41

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Are Japanese counter words still being created?

history counters chinese language-change asked Sep 19, 2016 at 21:30

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Why is *salāta feminine? What was the original noun it is modifying?

etymologia medieval-latin vulgar-latin romance-languages asked Jul 21, 2020 at 15:20

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-的 adjectives modifying nouns without な

adjectives suffixes copula na-adjectives asked Jan 3, 2015 at 23:48

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10 votes

Languages preserving loanword inflections

latin cases inflection borrowing declension asked May 5, 2017 at 15:04

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9 votes

What’s an authoritative source for a complete list of official shinjitai kanji?

kanji kyūjitai-and-shinjitai asked Aug 16, 2011 at 18:14

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7 votes

動作 as opposed to 作用

vocabulary linguistics asked Sep 25, 2011 at 17:55

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7 votes

Affrication-like sound in palatal plosive [c]

phonetics articulation perception stops affricates asked Nov 11, 2019 at 10:28

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6 votes

Looping over macro arguments with spaces and building partial commands

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Classical: On the subject of a sentence with 連用形/て clauses + ば condicional

grammar syntax conditionals classical-japanese morphology asked Sep 10, 2014 at 0:18

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Why do Japanese people have difficulties in pronouncing English?

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If Kanji are necessary to disambiguate homophones, how come it's still used, being that Japanese people seem to know the difference when speaking?

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Was Lovecraft's "Shunned House" a real building?

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Which languages have different words for "maternal uncle" and "paternal uncle"?

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Why do people refer to "cultists" in the Lovecraftian mythos, if Lovecraft himself never used the word?

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Does Japanese have an original word for banana besides the loanword バナナ?

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Relationship between Geneva and gin?

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Does Vて+いる always mean an action already completed?

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Do we really need to remember the kunyomi and onyomi reading of each kanji?

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How does ghetto talk work in tonal languages?

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Is use of sorting expected and used in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)?

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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?

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At what time did furigana start being used?

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Kanji that don't use their specified readings

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What does 動ラ下二 means? And how to pronounce it?

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Why the words for pineapple sound so similar in Hebrew and in German?

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Kun Yomi of Chinese origin, like 竹 (take)

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Japanese kun'yomi with final N?

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Do words Deus and idea share the root?

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Are there any languages with only front vowels?

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Why are some linguists and other people very much against conlangs?

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What's the origin of 助 (saving)?

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Pronouncing the ひ sound correctly

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Trying to make sense of "...but voiced obstruents are not always voiced"

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Which languages have words containing the same letter three times in a row?

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Why is intentional form used in 「カラオケに行こうと誘われました」?

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Usage of 付加的な意味 in a sentence

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Is there a pseudo-scientific explanation for Vision's ability to pass through walls?

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Is 「喧嘩」 a verbal fight or a physical fight?

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Difference between 愛する and 愛す

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