Questions tagged [linguistics]
言語学. The study of languages.
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Suffix as defined in romanized Japanese morphological analysis
Older grammar books tend to rely on a lot of romanization to teach the nitty-gritty of morphology, which is also reflected in some of @snail's answers like this one. I was reading Samuel Elmo Martin's ...
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Word lists/sources for pitch accent in Middle Japanese
Is there anywhere I can find a list of words and what their reconstructed pitches were in Middle Japanese? Or especially what words we have tone dot information on (with a preference for the oldest ...
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Is there a word specifically for "a transitive/intransitive verb pair"?
There are many pairs of transitive and intransitive verbs in Japanese: e.g. 上げる and 上がる, 交える and 交じる, 広げる and 広がる.
Separately, transitive verbs are called 他動詞{たどうし} and intransitive verbs are called ...
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Are forms of address and kinship terms pronouns/代名詞 in Japanese? Why or why not?
It hit me when I was editing this question which had the pronouns tag. I wasn't sure if 「娘」 is considered a pronoun in Japanese. Looking for relevant examples of kinship terminology in English, I ...
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What does Kenneth Henshall mean by "X is used phonetically to express Y"?
Henshall seems to have a quite specific idea about how many phonetic elements end up in characters, which diverges from explanations I find online, but I'm not sure I'm reading him correctly. ...
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Sleeping verbs and まで vs までに
So I was wondering, pretty much all of the sleep related verbs switch meaning with まで and までに.
Was it always like that? Or was there a time when ８時まで寝る meant "going to bed at 8"?
Or take the even ...
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