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* [[English Quotatives]] - Collection of quotatives in English
 
* [[English Quotatives]] - Collection of quotatives in English
 
* [[JNW's English]] - Jonathan North Washington's idiosyncracies in the way he speaks English
 
* [[JNW's English]] - Jonathan North Washington's idiosyncracies in the way he speaks English
* [[Pronunciations]] - Dialectical differences in people other than JNW
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* [[Æ]] - the vowel I call /Æ/
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* [[Proto English Vowels]] - some comparative data, aiming at reconstructing a proto-Modern-English vowel system
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* [[Australian English hiatus]] - /r/, /j/, /w/
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* [[Australian pronouns]]
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* [[English sound changes]] - an attempt to derive various English varieties from Proto Modern English
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* [[Syntactic differences between dialects of English]]
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* [[Jonathan and Tristan's Big Phonetic Project]]
  
== Other ==
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== Turkic ==
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=== generative stuff ===
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* [[Kypchak rounding harmony]] - needs work, ugh.
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* [[Kazakh Syntax Topics]] - problems of Kazakh syntax that need looking at
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* [[Turkic Sonority Constraints]] - needs work, ugh.
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* [[Kazakh a~ɯ problem]] - a problem of Kazakh phonetics (or phonology) that needs looking at
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=== comparative stuff ===
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* [[Turkic words in Yiddish]] - Beyond kabaks and kavanes
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* [[Similarities to Turkic]] - Turkic words which are similar to words outside of Turkic
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* [[Turkic sound changes]] - attempts to reconstruct Turkic
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* [[Changes to Turkic]] - Potential sound changes that would account for borrowings into Turkic from other languages
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* [[Turkic words that shouldn't be as they are]] - Cross-dialectal borrowings?
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* [[Lexical differences between Kazakh and Kyrgyz]]
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=== other ===
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* Exclusive coverage of [[musings from Kazakhstan]]
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* [[Kazakh pages]] - more Kazakh topics
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* [[Why Turkic languages are awesome]] =)
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* [[Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects]]
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== Yiddish ==
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* [[The Weirdnesses of Yiddish Indirect Questions]]
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* [[Yiddish noun classes]]
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* [[Is Yiddish an Eastern Germanic language?]]
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* [[Turkic words in Yiddish]] - Beyond kabaks and kavanes
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== Romance ==
 
* [[Faux Genders]] - The discrepencies between Romance-language cognates' genders
 
* [[Faux Genders]] - The discrepencies between Romance-language cognates' genders
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* [[Gender of nouns in Spanish]] - Rules in Spanish for noun gender
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== Misc ==
 
* [[Kabaks and Kharbuzes]] - Several words for squashes and pumpkins and melons and watermelons in many of the world's languages are similar.  Take a look.
 
* [[Kabaks and Kharbuzes]] - Several words for squashes and pumpkins and melons and watermelons in many of the world's languages are similar.  Take a look.
* [[Turkic words in Yiddish]] - Beyond kabaks and kavanes
 
 
* [[Random musings about potential relations]]
 
* [[Random musings about potential relations]]
* [[Relations to Turkic]] Turkic words which are similar to words in other language groups
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* [[Changes to Turkic]] - Potential sound changes connecting some Turkic words with other languages
 
* [[Gender of nouns in Spanish]] - Rules in Spanish for noun gender
 
  
 
Back to [[Main Page]]
 
Back to [[Main Page]]
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[[Category:Linguistics]]
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[[Category:Phonetics]]
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[[Category:Phonology]]
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[[Category:Syntax]]
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[[Category:Historical Linguistics]]
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[[Category:English]]
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[[Category:Yiddish]]
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[[Category:Kazakh]]
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[[Category:Turkic Languages]]

Latest revision as of 13:43, 11 February 2012

This is just data I gather for fun. Better thought-out discussions on some of these themes and others may be found on the Topics page.

English

Turkic

generative stuff

comparative stuff

other

Yiddish

Romance

Misc


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