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Welcome to WikiProject Linguistics. We are a group of editors collaborating to improve linguistics articles on Wikipedia. We cover a broad range of subjects within the general field of linguistics, including theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, etymology, and phonetics. You will find a number of resources on this page to help you with improving Wikipedia's coverage of linguistics; take your time and have a look around. Please feel free to ask a question on the discussion page, and we will do our best to help you.

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• Question semantics -- This is a huge area of research for semantics, and it seems high time that there be a wiki page on it. Biktor627 (talk) 03:26, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

  I have started the very basics article skeleton and provided some references, here: Draft:Question_semantics Biktor627 (talk) 22:05, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

• Pedestrian's Paradox -- Botterweg14 (talk) 01:57, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
• Commitment (linguistics) (in the sense of a discourse commitment) -- Botterweg14 (talk) 01:57, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
• Usage labels or "Context labels", see wikt:Wiktionary:ELE#Context_labels. -- Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 18:21, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
• Grammatical meaning and Lexical meaning. Now that write that I'm doubting whether these are the current terms; something akin to subcategorization in the former case and sense and reference in the latter. See, for example this version of Grammaticalization which referred to the two categories of meaning. Compare also Function word and Content word. Cnilep (talk) 03:25, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
• Vocalization (currently a disambiguation page), the change of a consonant into a vowel or semivowel, a form of lenition, in some cases synonymous with approximation. There is an article on l-vocalization, but nothing on the topic in general. This term needs to be distinguished from several other concepts also called "vocalization", such as speech production, voice (phonetics), and consonant voicing and devoicing, and finding another term for the concept that does not have such ambiguity might be helpful. Or perhaps the concept should be described in the article on lenition. — Eru·tuon 23:10, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
• Doctrinal (grammar) 13th-16th c., rhymed Latin grammar for beginners
• Intergenerational transmission languages being passed on as a first language at home — Catrìona (talk) 21:16, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Requests for expansion

• Case government - it is stub, without resources and has mistakes Cnevis (talk) 21:56, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
• List of glossing abbreviations - In classroom practice, this page has become a main reference to resolve glossing abbreviations in interlinear glossed text. In Wikipedia, this *should* be the basis for glossing with the templates Template:Tlx and Template:Tlx and provide input to Module:Interlinear/data. Originally, this was compiled and extended in an opportunistic fashion. Not all glosses listed there have adequate literature references, yet. For some, no "conventional gloss" (for use within Wikipedia) has been suggested so far, for other glosses, there is need to confirm/review the "conventional gloss". More variants are needed and a discussion of systematic principles of forming abbreviations (e.g., -E or -ESS for essives). Chiarcos (talk) 13:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Working on it. Additional input would be nice, but I've got another score refs in the wing. — kwami (talk) 12:40, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

• Northern Subject Rule, I have added a large amount of text explaining the Celtic origin hypothesis for this feature, it now needs the Old English and (possibly) Norse theories including for balance. I really don't feel comfortable with doing it myself as I'm pretty useless with Old English. Can anybody help?Boynamedsue (talk) 07:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• Comparative_case - Though this tagged as a high-importance linguistics article, the article is only a stub. The range of uses of "comparative case" needs to be clarified, and there needs to be more examples. Biktor627 (talk) 20:16, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Requests for attention

• Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew and the related Tamil loanwords in other languages appear to have some pov issues around tamil nationalism, and the former is of very poor quality (the grammar is spotty, loanwords are cited only transliteration, sometimes unvocalised, and sometimes seemingly inconsistent with the grammar suggested by the translation). Several of the examples also seem to be stretched at best and, one of the cited works also calls several of the examples provided by one of their other sources "highly controversial", something the article does not bring up. I also raised this on the etymology subproject but that appears fairly dead Tristanjlroberts (talk) 14:44, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Krishnamurti cites two of the etyma as successful loans without refering to the bible. This would mean Proto-Dravidian, give or take if the dates are uncertain. Dravidian and Tamil are probably cognate ethnonyms, still used as synonyms but distinguished later in linguistic discourse. So the fact that the article leads with "Tamil loanwords" is a sign of a rather local perspective where they may be synonyms. Perhaps it should be moved. Rhyminreason (talk) 22:34, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

• Maybe someone can help with Abkhaz vowels? Alaexis_¿question? 07:12, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
• For editors interested in the use of IPA on American English dialect pages, this is a call for further thoughts and contributions on this discussion. Thanks! Wolfdog (talk) 00:56, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
• There is an RfM at Talk:Pied-Noir#Lowercase where some of the issues involve the definition of proper noun and loanword, and how they apply to this phrase. Comment there would be welcome. Elinruby (talk) 19:21, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
• Dobrujan Tatar alphabet is a confusing mess. Snowman304|talk 02:10, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Requests for review

• I have re-written Arc Pair Grammar, but I'm a student editor through WikiEdu, and I'd like someone with background in the subject and more experience on Wikipedia to check it over JeanLackE (talk) 18:08, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

• classifier construction Newly created article, I would appreciate some feedback.--Megaman en m (talk) 20:13, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

• Linguistic Linked Open Data currently very much written from a technical perspective (because this is in the intersection with computer science), but requires a thorough look from the eyes of a linguist to improve readability Chiarcos (talk) 13:26, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• OntoLex also written from a technical perspective (because this is in the intersection with computer science), but requires a thorough look from the eyes of a linguist to improve readability Chiarcos (talk) 13:26, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• Synizesis has been vastly expanded. Currently rated stub class, but I would be appreciate if it were considered for reassessment. Sem2wiki (talk) 09:48, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

• I expanded Relational grammar last month, and I'm curious whether or not it still qualifies as a stub. --ZeegoTheDeer (talk) 05:04, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

• I have recently read interactional linguistics and am curious as to why it is still considered a stub. I'd probably label it start or C grade article--Farleigheditor (talk) 12:28, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

  I think I have added a bit of length to that article since it was given its stub status, but I don't really know how the quality grading is supposed to be changed and haven't thought about looking into it... Replayful (talk) 13:00, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

  I took a look at the article, and I think it looks to be of sufficient quality and length to qualify as start, so I changed the rating, which, by the way, you can do by going to the talk page of the article and editing the class in the WP Linguistics header at the top. Also, should I remove this thread from here as the article review under question has been completed? Indigopari (talk) 08:11, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

• I wrote horror aequi, but it needs a linguist to look it over, a little more meat to get it beyond a stub, and probably better examples. —  AjaxSmack  19:16, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

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2. Native Mandarin speaker, natively fluent in American English, intermediate skills in Spanish. Interested in linguistics as a hobby. Also a toki pona speaker, currently learning Quenya.
5. currently learning Korean. Will soon be learning Japanese. I'm a English speaker
7. JD, Temple University
8. Ph.D. in Linguistics, Yale University (expected December 2017)
10. I will be active unless I'm in this shit
12. native Swedish speaker: interested in languages, primarily Indo-European and language isolate(s) especially ancient languages. Most interesting is Germanic languages. :)
19. (formerly Angr)
23. : native AmE speaker (with intermediate Spanish skills) interested in syntax, comparative and historical linguistics, constructed languages, IPA, and copyediting—just about anything that has orderly rules or standards that can be adhered to.
24. : Sanskrit lover. Competent in Spanish.
25. : Computational Linguist.
29. My formal training and experience is in Evolutionary biology; i'm an enthusiastic novice at linguistics. I'm interested in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, English, Tok Pisson, and related languages. I'm "learning" about 4 languages, but i'm still only fluent in English so far. I seem to be far more interested in learning about languages than learning how to use them.
31. : Native Romanian speaker; interested in ancient Dacian and Thracian languages.
33. : English language and its usage and development, Eurasian languages, mostly Indo-European (especially Romance, Germanic & Celtic); Proto-Indo-European; Tolkien's fictional Elvish; language-related template work. BA in anthropology & linguistics. Native English speaker (mostly American, but learned to read and write in England); intermediate Spanish (Latin American).
36. Interested in plain language
38. : native BrE, fairly good German speaker, also currently working on French, Italian, and Polish, among other occasional languages. Primarily focussed on copyediting, reviewing, and standardising.
40. : Working on Causatives and other valency-related topics, Guarani, areas related to sociolinguistics, and whatever other smaller languages I happen to read about. Linguistics grad student.
41. : I use phylogenetic methods to study relatedness of languages, and am interested in Middle Egyptian.
42. : I have some roots in comparative and historical linguistics and phonology, but am generally more interested in language as it relates to cognition, as well as general syntax, semantics and translation studies.
43. Native American English speaker, who speaks some German and French; Interests include constructing languages and theoretical linguistics. I am a High School graduate of 2014.
44. American; linguistic interests include phonology, sound change, and orthography.
45. : Native AmE speaker, with some Spanish, Latin, Hebrew, Basque, and Esperanto. BA in Linguistics. Interests include phonology, morphology, canonical typology, semantics, constructed languages, and pretty much anything else that isn't syntax.
46. : PhD candidate historical linguist / Uralicist, additional interests in phonology, typology, history of linguistics.
49. : professional linguist, current focus on sign languages (especially language identification), past focus on Mexican indigenous languages
50. Study Linguistics with a focus on sociolinguistics, phonetics, and signed languages
54. Australian linguist interested in language documentation and description and general linguistics
55. I find languages and writing systems very interesting and I'm always willing to help out
56. student, interested in philology
57. - Iroquoian languages, BLPs of significant Linguists - would especially like to see expansion of the articles on Wallace Chafe, Marianne Mithun and Lyle Campbell, with whom I studied. Other Biographies of greats in the field also could use expansion such as Floyd Lounsbury.
58. I like linguistics and language stuff, so I try and improve articles about them whenever I can. I'm not a professional linguist, just a guy who reads books and a lot of Wikipedia... Also, I'm French, I speak fluent English and I know some Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Esperanto and some basic Irish.
59. Just someone interested in linguistics who uses Wikipedia a lot, and likes to give back to the community whenever possible.
60. BAHons in Linguistics, Spanish, Polish @ University of Toronto. Native Canadian English, intermediate-to-advanced Spanish and Polish. Some Canadian French, Dutch, and Portuguese. Kartvelian, Iroquoian, and Germanic languages. Phonology, historical linguistics, variationalist sociolinguistics.
61. MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
62. English speaker and Dutch learner. I plan on studying linguistics in college. I love historical and theoretical linguistics and am an avid conlanger. My dream is to get into MIT. I would be honored to be a part of this project and I love to know that my contributions, no matter how small, are going towards a better wikipedia.
64. Professor of Linguistics with a focus on Australian languages and historical linguistics
67. An Australian linguist interested in cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, English language education and semantics.
68. Amateur linguist interested in the distinctive features of the English language
69. HonBA in Linguistics at University of Toronto (expected June 2019), avid language learner, aspiring PhD candidate.
70. Native AmE. Ph.D. in linguistics ( Berkeley, 1981). Dissertation on American Sign Language. Lifelong language geek and compulsive reader. Hypertrophied vocabulary. Fluent Esperanto; half-decent reading Spanish, French, German; varying skills in Russian, Old and Middle English, and bits and pieces of many others. Was senior linguist at Dragon Systems, then a research administrator in the Linguistic Data Consortium at Penn. Retired since 2013.
71. PhD, lecturer in theoretical linguistics, computational linguist
72. Student linguist, SLA, particularly phonological development in L2 learners. Speaker of Spanish and English.
73. Student linguist
75. Translator, writer, and polyglot. Interested in etymology, mutual intelligibility, and historical linguistics.
81. Prospective linguistics major
82. Teaching a Spring 2019 Wiki Ed course in linguistic anthropology at American University
83. Current student of linguistics at Grinnell College. Interests: syntax, syntax-semantic interface, philosophy of language.
84. Interested in IPAs for Italian.
85. especially interested in phonology and phonetics; currently a language student.
86. Polish and English phonetics.
87. Linguistics student, primarily interested in historical ling. and typology.
89. Amateur linguist primarily interested in historical & comparitive linguistics. Native American English speaker, learning German and Spanish (and a little Welsh and Korean).
91. Linguistics student @University of Pavia majoring in sociolinguistics and sociophonetics
92. Interested in becoming more immersed in IPA.
94. discourse, dialogue, logic, formal semantics; additional interests in computational linguistics, philosophy of language, Jewish languages, Indo-European prehistory/archaeology, among other topics
95. BA in linguistics, with research in acoustics, phonetics and phonology. Also interested in information organization re:language data.
96. - computational linguistics, discourse, semantics, morphology, annotation
97. - morphology, syntax, phonology, Finnish, Yup'ik
99. Phd Candidate @ UCLA - intonationist, phonetician, & psycholinguist
100. Conlanger and IPA enthusiast
102. Native English speaker studying Spanish. Interested in Indo-European and Afroasiatic languages.
104. Studied a BA in ling., interested in hist. ling., syntax, language technology, phil. of lang., and typology
105. Native English speaker with knowledge/is studying Spanish and French. Interested in Finno-Ugric languages, but has no prior knowledge to these languages.
107. Linguistics postgrad student. Interested in Romance languages, historical linguistics, pidgins and creoles, language contact. Not Chomsky's bezzy mate.
108. Professor of linguistics with a focus on syntax, historical linguistics, and the Germanic languages.
109. Indo-European comparative linguistics, etymology.
110. Native English speaker, fluency in Chinese and Indonesian (Bahasa)/interested in linguistics
111. Native NZ English speaker, interested in phonology.
112. - language documentation and description, discourse analysis, linguistic landscapes, comoputational linguistics
114. 22:53:32, 19 January 2022 (UTC)  Interested in various topics: Southern Oceanic, the Slavic languages, models of word order and syntax, etc.
116. Native English speaker
117. BS linguistics, research in computational linguistics, native speaker in Cantonese & fluent in English, Mandarin, French.
118. PhD candidate. Semantics, morphology, Turkic linguistics.
119. a street rather than an academic linguistic background
120. Linguistics student focused on historical Linguistics (and the history of), Indo-European Languages, and linguistic typology.
121. Native English speaker, mostly fluent in Spanish, learning Finnish, Classical Greek, and Old English. Interested in phonology and historical linguistics!
123. Post-undergrad linguistics student interested in (socio-)phonetics and discourse analysis. Growing interest in conlanging.
124. - mostly working on Romanian language material (but willing to help with other languages as well).
125. - student linguist
126. - BA Linguistics, research on religious language ideology. focus on socioling, linganth, and phil of lang. interest in etymology, pragmatics, and more.
127. - Professor of translation, doctorate in Medieval German, interested in Germanic and Indo-European comparative linguistics. Also speaks Gaelic.
128. - I’m new to Wikipedia
129. - Fluent in English, near-fluent to fluent in Hindi, has also studied Sanskrit, French, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Esperanto. Really interested in comparative, historical, and computational linguistics, and is a conlanger.
130. - Learning French, German, Russian, Spanish and more. Fluent in English.
131. - Native USA English, strong background in ASL, some Spanish. Decades of amateur fascination with many aspects of linguistics.
132. - new to wikipedia, interested in participating in WikiEdu in my class this fall
133. - new to wikipedia. BA in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Primarily interested in editing psycholinguistics articles, as well as helping to write/contribute to articles on endangered languages.
135. — Researcher and corpus linguist. PhD in Persian Language and Literature from Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran.
136. – B.A. in linguistics, professional technical editor, here to work on my Spanish/English translations and make stuff easy to read
138. – Native English speaker, learning Latin and German. Interested in etymology and extinct languages. :)
140. - BA in Linguistics and currently in graduate school in the same field
141. Ancient script and development of language enjoyer.
142. Professor emerita of linguistics with a focus on language and literacy development
143. - Native (American) English speaker, learning Spanish, German and (very slowly) Quechua
144. - Native Hiberno-English speaker, learning Spanish.
146. - I really love lingustics and I'm a native Polish speaker, knows really well English, and I study German and Mandarin.
147. - MA in linguistics, native speaker of two Alemannic varieties
150. - I speak English natively. I speak fluent Japanese and advanced Spanish. I am learning Korean and Chinese.
151. - Native Korean speaker, learning English, German. Interested in IPA keys and pronunciation of football players' names.
152. - Native mandarin speaker, fluent in English and Spanish. Particularly interested in theoretical linguistics.
155. – native Croatian speaker; undergrad in English and Scandinavian studies. Mostly interested in Germanic branch linguistics, but dabbling in all sorts of stuff, especially phonology.
157. — Interested in linguistics, though without any formal education in the field. Native English speaker.
160. - Native Chinese and English speaker. Intermediate French speaker.

Inactive participants

Participants are listed as inactive if they have not edited Wikipedia in six months or more. Last updated 06:47, 11 September 2018 (UTC).

38. : linguist working both in theoretical linguistics (especially formal semantics and typology) and language documentation.
47. : Interested in syntax, morphology, creole languages, and Chinese linguistics
49. : native Polish speaker, good knowledge of IPA, pretty good English, can add vowel charts
53. M.Phil in General Linguistics, University of Oxford (expected July 2017)
57. : native Polish speaker, primarily a phonologist and historical linguists; a Wikipedia veteran willing to return to active service
58. :native in English, but I also do translations to BrE. I am currently fluent in French, Spanish, and Japanese. I am also of " profissional de Português." tlhIngan Hol jatlh lo'wI'vam. = This user speaks Klingon.
59. : native speaker of Italian, advanced user of English; postdoctoral researcher in phonetics and phonology; interested in phonetics and phonology, graphemics, typology, diachrony, descriptive linguistics.
60. Native in American English; intermediate-advanced in Japanese; lesser amounts of a few others like Czech, German, MSA, Classical Nahuatl, and Zulu. Hobbyist linguist; interested mainly in morphology.
61. I study linguists.
63. (formerly Aries91)
64. I study linguistics and doing research on cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and such.
65. Always looking to learn more and contribute. Especially interested in phonetics.
67. - Layperson (and aspiring linguist); interested in Slavistics and all sorts of applied linguistics, particularly cognitive linguistics.
68. A lover of linguistics with a focus on cognitive linguistics. Interested in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, construction grammar, and particular linguistic features in general. ;) Avid conlanger.
69. amateur and lover of Linguistics...learning....
70. Researcher in Indo-European and Asian languages.
78. Experienced in IPA and phonetic respelling

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