Linguist pseudonyms
Rare speech sounds
Verbs and auxiliaries
Language families
Syntax
100
This Oregon functionalist sometimes calls himself Tommy.
Who is Talmy Givón?
100
These velaric ingressive consonants are found only in a few languages in Africa.
What are clicks?
100
This verb form has an affix that is a bank.
What is gerund?
100
Estonian, Eastern Meadow Mari, Tundra Nenets
What is Uralic?
100
Node A governs B if A c-commands B and there is no node G, where G is c-commanded by A and G c-commands B
What is government?
200
This is the nickname of the inventor of Ross Constraints
What is Haj?
200
This rare fricative, found in English, is represented by an IPA symbol that is also a letter of the Greek alphabet.
What is a (voiceless) (inter)dental fricative?
200
This verb form has always been immaculate.
What is perfect?
200
Chamorro, Malagasy, Javanese
What is Austronesian?
200
An element that binds a pronouns, anaphor or R-expression.
What is an antecedent?
300
While a graduate student, this Yale professor once used the pen-name Dr. Forthcoming Larynx-Horn.
Who is Laurence Horn?
300
These vowels, written in German as vowels with two dots above them, are rare outside of Europe.
What are front rounded vowels?
300
What do you want? The future is not guaranteed.
What is will?
300
Squamish, Lushootseed, Coeur d'Alene
What is Salishan?
300
Another name for argument structure.
What is valency?
400
Like Quang Phuc Dong, this alter-ego of James McCawley also hailed from the South Hanoi Institute of Technology
Who is Yuck Foo?
400
These consonants are found in languages such as Nahuatl and Tlingit.
What are lateral affricates? / What are lateral fricatives?
400
To be or not to be
What is a copula?
400
Telugu, Kannada, Vishavan
What is Dravidian?
400
In the open adverb class of Parts of Speech, this subclass of adverbs (ex. too, quite, mostly) is primarily closed.
What are intensifiers?
500
Arnold the Grammarous is one of many nicknames for this linguist whose name spans the alphabet from A to Z.
Who is Arnold Zwicky?
500
This flap was added to the IPA only in 2005.
What is the labiodental flap?
500
Rabbits can do this, but so can affixes
What is hopping?
500
Gooniyandi, Yidiny, Dyirbal, Warlpiri
What is Australian?
500
These contain the grammatical information in a sentence: D, P, Conj, T, Neg, C, but not N, V, Adj or Adv
What are functional categories?
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