User talk:Skysmith/Missing topics about Languages

Bislami
Is this a real form? I see only "Bislama" being used except for a couple of Wikipedia pages. --JWB 21:08, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Potential redirects
Regarding Lexeme-based morphology and Word-based morphology, the page Morpheme-based morphology was recently merged with Morphology (linguistics) and is now a redirect. The former two topics, which are currently treated at Morphology (linguistics) could also be created as redirects.

Regarding Pejorative change, there is a current page titled Pejoration, which is a redirect to Semantic change. The current treatments of pejoration and amelioration on the latter page seem inadequate, by the way.

Progressive assimilation and Regressive assimilation are each mentioned at Assimilation (linguistics)

Phatic communion might be created as a redirect to Phatic, which is currently a stub.

Adjacency pair should be created as a redirect to Adjacency pairs.

Context of utterance might be created as a redirect to Context (language use).

There is currently a page called Cooperative principle (no hyphen).

By Discourse-organizing words do you have in mind Discourse marker?

Felicity condition should redirect to Felicity conditions.

Formality level might redirect to Register (sociolinguistics).

I also note that there is currently a page called Foreigner talk theory which is a redirect to Creole language. I suspect that this is not what you have in mind with Foreigner talk.
 * No, and I am not sure whether this related to communication theory, linguistics or psychology. There are studies of who people behave when they talk to foreigners (often like the foreigners were children) but I am not sure what would be the "official" term - Skysmith (talk) 11:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Might Code selection be treated at Information theory? You're probably thinking of the post-Jakobson, post-Fano work in Communication, Applied Linguistics, etc. Still, there is some overlap, at least historically. Maybe Code mixing and/or Code-switching?
 * Actually, I have to recheck that - Skysmith (talk) 11:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Cnilep (talk) 16:29, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I see that you have a very large list of these topics - and a large number of lists - and claim no specific expertise in relation to the topics. I misunderstood the intent of the list. I'll go ahead and make the less controversial of my suggestions above. Cnilep (talk) 16:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirects created, as indicated by strike-through. Cnilep (talk) 17:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, my knowledge about most of these topics is superficial at best, otherwise I would try to write articles about them. Thank you - Skysmith (talk) 11:43, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Arakan Burmese
When we have an article about this, it will probably be called Rakhine language, so Arakan Burmese will be a redirect there. +Angr 13:23, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

"Abdominal abstract noun"
Google says:


 * No results found for "Abdominal abstract noun".
 * Results for Abdominal abstract noun (without quotes):
 * Search Results

I strongly suggest removing it. Where'd this one come from, anyway?

--Thnidu (talk) 06:47, 23 January 2017 (UTC)