Linguistics

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Welcome to the community about the science of human Language!

Everyone is welcome here: from laypeople to professionals, Historical linguists to discourse analysts, structuralists to generativists.

Rules:

0. Instance rules apply.
1. Be reasonable, constructive, and conductive to discussion.
2. Stay on-topic, specially for more divisive subjects. And avoid unnecessary mentioning topics and individuals prone to derail the discussion.
3. Post sources when reasonable to do so. And when sharing links to paywalled content, provide either a short summary of the content or a freely accessible archive link.
4. Avoid crack theories and pseudoscientific claims.
5. Have fun!

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• !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works
• !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
• !conlangs@mander.xyz
• !esperanto@sopuli.xyz
• !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz
• !latin@piefed.social

Resources:

Grammar Watch - contains descriptions of the grammars of multiple languages, from the whole world.

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