english - Meaning of the root ject - Linguistics Stack Exchange @jogloran This is about eight and a half years late, but yes, it is unstressed vowel weakening The weakening happened at a pre-Latin stage when the language had fixed initial stress; so ˈprōiaciō, ˈprōiactum become ˈprōiciō, ˈprōiectum just like ˈprincaps, ˈprincapes -os (from *ˈprīmo-cap-) becomes ˈprinceps, ˈprincipis
english - Is “them” in “I care for them” an indirect object, a direct . . . The term indirect object confuses me because I don’t see these as forming an object relation with the verb at all They have an adverbial relation to the verb, indicating the reason or purpose of the action (why) or the direction of the action
english - Is love transitive? - Linguistics Stack Exchange I was just watching a linguistics video in which it was stated that in the sentence quot;John loves Mary quot;, the verb love requires the direct object Mary, implying that it would be incorrect t
morphology - Do some languages use lexical stress to differentiate . . . ˈob ject = solid or tangible thing ob ˈject = protest ˈsub ject = topic, living object of an experiment sub ˈject = inflict upon My question is "are there languages that use lexical stress exclusively or almost exclusively to differentiate words that have the same phonemes but do not have related meanings?
What are the stress-distinguished minimal pairs in English? Because the many homographs, especially initial-stress-derived nouns, that are distinguished only by stress can be found among this large list on Wikipedia, I am particularly interested in non-homograph pairs (like insight incite, or below billow, but not project project)
How did OE æ ǣ tranform into ME ō? How did OE æ (stæl) ǣ (stǣle) tranform into ME ō (stole)? It wasn’t a regular sound change The vowel in stole was influenced by analogy with other strong past forms like drove and the past participle stolen
Is Medea not the root of media? - Linguistics Stack Exchange The media that is shortened from tunica media is the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel Tunica media literally means middle tunic, though tunica was metaphorically extended to mean 'membrane'
What is the difference between free morpheme and root? It is said that: • in free morphemes the word form consists of exactly one morpheme (e g , word, act, etc) • root: is the morpheme left over when all inflectional and derivational affixes have
What is the scope of negation? - Linguistics Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers