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Greg Lee

Waimanalo, HI

I'm a retired linguist.

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Understanding the purported ambiguity in “Every boy didn’t run”
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Which comes first? Grammar or language?
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Why do we call sound pitches "low" and "high"?
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Can't make sense of a paragraph from Lovecraft
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What's this? What is it? but not What's it? - Why?
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"One can do his homework in the library"
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Comma after also at the beginning of a sentence
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Does knowing PIE roots help with vocab?
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How can I prove a word is a noun?
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Is "He died himself." a correct sentence?
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Why isn't "I've" a proper response?
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In English, noun phrases within a relative clause cannot be further relativized, but this is allowed in some cases in Japanese
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How would someone begin translating an unknown language?
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Do children's mispronunciations influence the development of a language?
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How did "run over him" evolve to "run him over" over the last 50 years?
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Intuitive English example of why linguists think natural language grammar is stronger than CFL?
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Why is Edenics not recognized as a serious linguistic theory?
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a [box [of apples] ] vs [a box] [of apples]
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When were linguistics departments first established
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Is the order of words purely based on convention?
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What do you call a rope you set to return to an original point?
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My favourite song [of/from/by] her is...
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Is "Whom should I give this job to?" grammatically correct?
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Which comes first? Grammar or language?
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What is the difference between 'until' and 'up until'?
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Why is the preposition treated as the head of a prepositional phrase?
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Where to start if you want to do Chomsky style NLP?
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Can computational techniques solve historical problems that couldn't otherwise be solved?
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Is "programming" not a noun?
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Can a sentence have two ing-verbs in a row?
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