Italian: is there an authoritative word frequency list?
Jul 3, 2016 · I'm having difficulty finding a good frequency list for the Italian language (lemmas, not including inflected word forms). Anyone know if there's some research or website or …
Why are French, Italian, Spanish etc. listed as SVO languages?
Feb 6, 2019 · 29 French, Spanish and Italian use SVO in clauses with non-pronominal arguments. Many languages make use of more than one kind of word order; the "canonical" order used in …
romance languages - Why does Italian use definite articles before ...
Oct 29, 2017 · The Italian language is well known for using definite articles quite liberally, before dates, weekdays, numbers, in some cases even in front of personal names as it is the case of …
historical linguistics - How did Italian manage to stay (mostly ...
Italian is commonly cited as an example of a phonetically spelled language. It is easy to guess how an Italian word is pronounced based on the way it is written, because each written symbol …
Aren't all spoken languages tonal? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
May 2, 2022 · Now: Italian for example (which I was told is not tonal) differentiates questions from affirmations simply on how you say the sentence (while other languages have things like a …
At what point does a language become its descendant?
Aug 7, 2018 · At what point do we say "These people in the Italian peninsula are no longer speaking Latin; they are speaking Italian"? There used to be an official answer to this: Italians …
Why are Latin descendants SVO? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Latin was a language which predominant order was Subject-Object-Verb, as in the example proverb Errare Humanum Est So, why all its modern descendents are predominantly Subject …
etymology - Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin …
Romanian is a romance language like Catalan, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish so much of its core vocabulary is derived from Latin. Why then even in core vocabulary does Romanian …
Which language has the biggest vocabulary? - cross linguistic
Mar 17, 2013 · Modern Greek language has over 350.000 word entries (λήμματα,ρίζες των λέξεων) so the number of the derivative words in Greek vocabulary is much bigger than …
indo european - Are Germanic languages closer to Italo-Celtic …
Mar 3, 2021 · I ask because in some recent classifications, Italo-Celtic languages (like French, Spanish, Italian, Irish, and Breton), Balto-Slavic languages (like Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, …