and Neo-Whorfianism
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
and simplification of English
and Viking influence
and written vs. spoken language
generic pronouns
genetics
Genghis Khan
genitive case
genocide
German
and case marking
and directional adverbs
and English grammar
and generic pronouns
and meaningless do
and noun cases
and noun gender
and orphan words
and past perfect
and progressive -ing
and Proto-Germanic
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
and verb usage
and written vs. spoken language
Germanic family of languages
comparisons of
and consonant sounds
and dialects
and directional adverbs
and English variation
features shed in English
and meaningless do
and orphan words
and past perfect
and Phoenician influence
and progressive -ing
similarities among
and simplification of English
subcategories
variations among
and verb usage
Germanic invasions
Germany
gerunds. See also progressive construction and progressive ing
goblo
going
Gothic
grammar
and causality issues
and Celtic influence
and Chinese
and colonial languages
and cultural influences
English and German compared
and Germanic languages
and Icelandic
grammar (continued)
inconsistencies on
and language mixing
and linguistic equilibrium
myths and misconceptions
and Neo-Whorfianism
and Norman influence
and Old English
and Phoenician influence
rules of
Russian
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
and scripture vs. writing
and simplification of English
and study of languages
and suffixes
thought and grammar
and variation
and Viking influence
and vocabulary changes
and written vs. spoken language
Greece
Greek
and case markers
and English vocabulary
grammar conservatism
influence on Albanian
and noun cases
and noun gender
and progressive -ing
and Proto-Germanic consonants
Grimm’s Law
Gujarati
Guugu Yimithirr
H
habitual verbs
Hall, Robert
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hashimoto, Mantaro
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hebrew
and Germanic language families
and grammar inconsistencies
and meaningless do
and orphan words
and Phoenicians
and Proto-Germanic consonants
and verb placement
and verb tense
Henry , Part , (Shakespeare)
High German
Hindi
historians
Hittite
Hopi
Hungarian
hunter-gatherers
hypotheticals
I
Icelandic
and English grammar
and generic pronouns
and Germanic languages
and grammar complexity
and Proto-Germanic
and verb usage
Igbo
I Love Lucy
impact
imperfect tense
“impersonal” gender
inconsistencies in language
India
indigenous cultures
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
and consonant sounds
Indo-Aryan subfamily
and noun gender
and orphan words
and Phoenician influence
and Proto-Germanic consonants
and Russian grammar
and verb tense
Indonesian
Ine of Wessex
infinitives
intermarriage
Iran
Irish
Irish Gaelic
Italian
J
Jamaican patois
Japanese
external influences
and future markers
and grammar
and meaningless do
and noun markers
path to Modern English
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Jewish immigrants
Johnson, Samuel
Jutes
K
Kawesqar tribe
Kay, Paul
Kempton, Willett
Kentish dialect
Khoisan
khonsay
King James Bible
Koran
L
language contact specialty
language families
The Language Instinct (Pinker)
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars (McWhorter)
language-is-thought study
Lardil
Latin
and Albanian
and case marking
and English vocabulary
as formal language
grammar of
and Hittite
and modern vocabularies
and noun gender
and path to Modern English
and prepositions
and Proto-Germanic consonants
and suffixes
and verb tense
and vocabulary changes
and written language
La Vita Nuova (Dante)
laws
learning languages
Leave Your Language Alone! (Hall)
-le ending
Lindisfarne Gospels
linguistic equilibrium
linguistics
literacy
Lithuanian
locative case
Lucy, John A.
-ly ending
M
Macedonian
MacNeil, Robert
maiden
Mainland Scandinavian
Malawi
Malay
Manchus
Mandarin
Mandela, Nelson
mathematical language
McCrum, Robert
meaningless do
and Celtic
and complexity of English
and English grammar
and evolution of English
and German
and grammar inconsistencies
and linguistic equilibrium
and Old English
rarity of
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
spontaneous appearance theory
Welsh and Cornish influence
and written vs. spoken language
memory
Mercian dialect
Merman, Ethel
Middle East
Middle English
and case suffixes
and Celtic influence
and directional adverbs
and English grammar
features shed in English
and generic pronouns
and grammar
variations
and meaningless do
and past perfect
and progressive -ing
and simplification of English
and verb usage
and writing vs. scripture
and writing vs. spoken language
Minoan civilization
mistranslation
mitochondrial DNA
Modern English
and American slavery
and case marking
and colonial Africa
and cultural influences
evolution of
and generic pronouns
and grammar variation
interaction with other languages
and other Germanic languages
path from Old English
and Proto-Germanic
and random changes
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
and verb conjugation
and Viking influence
and vocabulary changes
and written vs. spoken language
Mongolia
Monnese dialect
Montagnais
Morocco
myths and misconceptions
N
Nanai
Native Americans
natural gender
negative statements
and meaningless do
in Russian
Neo-Whorfian School
Netherlands
The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English (Fonseca and Carolino)
New Guinea
New York Times
Nigeria
“noble savage” caricature
nominative case
Norman French
and English writing
and evolution of English
invasion of Britain
and scripture vs. writing
and simplification of English
and vocabulary changes
and written vs. spoken language
Norse
North Africa
Northern Middle English
Northern Subject Rule
Northumbrian dialect
Norway
Norwegian
and be-perfect
and English grammar
and Germanic language families
grammar
and progressive -ing
and Proto-Germanic
and simplification of English
tonal qualities
and Viking influence
nouns. See also gender
and case making
and grammar inconsistencies
suffixes
and verb conjugation
and Viking influence
nuance in language
number words
O
object pronouns
Ojibwa
Old Church Slavonic
Old English
and case suffixes
and Celtic influence
and cultural influences
dialects
and directional adverbs
and evolution of English
and generic pronouns
and grammar
and linguistic equilibrium
and meaningless do
and modern vocabularies
and orphan words
and past perfect
path to Modern English
and Phoenician influence
and progressive -ing
Proto-Germanic traits
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
“schwa drop,”
Old English (continued)
and scripture vs. writing
and simplification of English
and suffixes
and verb usage
and Viking influence
and Welsh
and written vs. spoken language
Old High German
Old Irish
Old Norse
and Celtic influence
and English grammar
and English vocabulary
and Icelandic
and Modern English
and scripture vs. writing
and simplification of English
and suffixes
and Viking influence
Old Scandinavian
onsay
order of words
orphan words
P
Palaung
paleontology
participles
passive voice
past tense
patois
Persian
“personal” gender
Philippines
Phoenician
Phol
Picts
Pinker, Steven
Pirahã tribe
placement words
place names
plurals
Pocahontas
Polish
popular culture
Portuguese
position words
possessives
Powhatan
prefixes
prepositions
present tense
printing press
progressive construction and progressive ing
and Celtic
and English grammar
and evolution of English
and grammar inconsistencies
and linguistic equilibrium
origin of
and stative verbs
and tense-marking
traditional explanations
Welsh and Cornish influence
pronouns
and culture
and gender
generic
in Germanic languages
and grammar inconsistency
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Shakespearean usage
and verb conjugation
Proto-Germanic
and Celtic influence
and consonant sounds
and English grammar
and English variation
external influences
features shed in English
and Germanic vocabularies
and grammar complexity
and Icelandic
and Modern English
and noun gender
and Old English
and Old Norse
and orphan words
and Phoenician influence
and progressive -ing
simplification of
and verb usage
Proto-Indo-European
and consonant sounds
and Hittite
and noun cases
and Old English grammar
and orphan words
and Phoenician influence
and Proto-Germanic consonants
and verb tense
and writing
Proto-Semitic
psychology
punch
Pytheas
Q
question sentences
R
racism
Reformation
religion
Romance languages. See also specific languages
Roman culture
Romanian
rules of grammar
Russian
and case markers
and cultural differences
and grammar
and noun gender
and orphan words
and placement words
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
S
sailing
Sanskrit
Sapir, Edward
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
failure of
and Modern English example
and Neo-Whorfians
ongoing influence
and politics
scholarship on
and tense-marking
Saxons . See also Anglo-Saxons
Scandi-land
Scandinavian
and English gramma
r
and Germanic language families
and Old English
and simplification of English
scholarly specialization
“schwa drop,”
scientific advance
Scotland
Scottish Gaelic
scribes
Semitic family of languages
and grammar inconsistencies
and orphan words
and Phoenician influence
and Proto-Germanic consonants
and verb tense
Serbian
seven
Shakespeare, William
and English grammar
and evolution of English
and Old English
and pronoun usage
and verb usage
Siberia
Sicilian Italian
simplification of English
and Norman influence
and Proto-Germanic
and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
and verb second (V) rule
and Viking influence
Sir Amadace
slavery (American)
Slavic (Slavonic)
social changes. See also Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
sociology
Somalia
South Africa
South America
Southern Middle English
Spanish
and gender marking
and generic pronouns
and maritime travel
and meaningless do
and modern education
and orphan words
path to Modern English
and position words
spoken variations
and verb usage
and written vs. spoken language
specialization, academic
speech and spoken language
Spencer, Jonathan
split infinitives
Standard Arabic
Standard English
stative verbs
stops (fricatives)
The Story of English (MacNeil)
strong verbs
subjunctive case
suffixes
and Australian Aborigines
and English grammar
and evolution of English
and grammar inconsistencies
and Icelandic
and Old English dialects
Old vs. Middle English
and Proto Germanic features
and scripture vs. writing
and Viking influence
and word order
and written vs. spoken language
Swedish
and be-perfect
dialects
and English grammar
and generic pronouns
and Germanic language families
and meaningless do
and noun gender
and past perfect
and Proto-Germanic
and Semitic languages
tonal qualities
and verb usage
and Viking influence
syntax. See grammar
Syriac
T
Tagalog
Tamil
technological advance
Teluga
tense, grammatical. See also progressive construction and progressive ing
conditional tense
and English grammar
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