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This tag is for questions seeking or discussing a term (or terms) belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject (e.g. linguistics, mathematics, physics, biology, finance, theatre, music, philosophy, astronomy, medical, nautical etc.). Consider adding [single-word-requests] and [phrase-requests] tags also if relevant.
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Weird question - is 'arrived' technically deponent?
In order to have some kind of resolution to this question, which doesn't seem likely to ever get a definitive answer (maybe because it doesn't have one? Wow, that aged like milk! See the accepted answ …
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Weird question - is 'arrived' technically deponent?
Of course, the other active voice forms of 'arrive' and 'return' aren't passive in form, so the technical term would actually be semi-deponent, if you could use that terminology at all in English. …
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What do you call the difference between when a verb expresses an actual state vs a potential... [closed]
Sometimes, the exact same verb can express two different but closely related meanings:
The subject [S] is actually performing an action [V]
The subject [S] is capable of performing an action [V]
To …
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Rising Pitch as the only minimal pair differentiator? The "cot" - "caw" [split? semi-merge? ...
Canonically, English is not a tonal language, and there are a number of posts on this site discussing why the use of rising tone in asking a question does not qualify (the reason being that it doesn't …
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Rising Pitch as the only minimal pair differentiator? The "cot" - "caw" [split? semi-merge? ...
After coming across this question and its answers, I believe Greg Lee has provided a relevant explanation of what's actually happening:
"The /t/ phoneme of English has neutral vowel color -- it's not …