inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an inflectional ending. From Dictionary.com.
How many inflectional forms may irregular verbs have?. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
For instance, Simon's parents used the correct inflectional morphology. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
He's developing that sound into a vocabulary with the inflectional range of Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
Western fixed pronouns could be viewed as inflectional affixes with mobile position. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: MALAY PRONOUNS.] Reference
It was a clipped, rather high-pitched language, inflectional but with a simple and logical grammar. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Way Home]
Just when you think you've seen everything:Can sexist ideologies be reflected in inflectional classes?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SEXIST DECLENSION.] Reference
'Unpacked' has a much closer (for me) affinity with 'unpack' (derivational) than with 'packed' (inflectional). From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.] Reference
I can't think of another instance where an old inflectional ending has risen to such English linguistic heights. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Adding semantic and inflectional information to the space of possibilities only makes the explosion more explosive. From Wordnik.com. [Is language just statistics?] Reference
An inflectional (see inflection) form of verbs; it expresses the time at which the action described by the verb takes place. From Wordnik.com. [tense] Reference
This variation in form is in no way analogous to that produced by inflectional changes, such as occur in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
Throbert McGee: and still have a good recollection of the rather complicated patterns of inflectional suffixes for Latin nouns andverbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » PC] Reference
One thoroughly familiar with the structure of the sentence will find little trouble in using correctly the few inflectional forms in English. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The Santorini & Kroch tree makes considerable use of "inflectional phrases," which weren't a part of the sentence diagrams I learned in school. From Wordnik.com. [Class Notes: Verb Islands] Reference
Mr. Thacker's point that both English and Chinese have a lot of inflectional sounds, usually associated with vowels, is indeed thought-provoking. From Wordnik.com. [Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Akkadian, meanwhile, is inflectional, so that a basic root can be modified to create words with different, if related, meanings by adding vowels, suffixes, and prefixes. From Wordnik.com. [The Whisperers] Reference
In the minimalist framework, lexicon has the numeration set, which comprises the lexical categories, functional categories and the inflectional and derivational suffixes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Many Roman writers were extremely fond of this sentence-structure, and it was well adapted to the inflectional character of their language; in English we generally avoid it. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
With the extant literature of the Vril-ya the inflectional stratum commences. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
"Unified inflectional processing of regular and irregular verbs: a PET study.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
In the elder inflectional literature the dual form existed -- it has long been obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
In one respect in the inflectional forms of the verb, the purist was unexpectedly successful. From Wordnik.com. [The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature] Reference
In Level Two, students learn 140 additional words and how to apply commonly used inflectional endings. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
The reader should also note that the classical typology also mostly applies to inflectional morphology. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Originally, the inflectional suffix had been - de or - ede and in some cases - ode, and the vowels were always pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb] Reference
Now and then the Keltic or Iberian names of Gallic or Spanish articles were taken up, but the inflectional system and the syntax of. From Wordnik.com. [The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature] Reference
Historical linguists reconstruct a protolanguage's system of sounds and system of inflectional morphology as well as its lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com] Reference
In some cases the sound system and inflectional system turn out to be complex and intricate, and PIE happens to be one of those cases. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com] Reference
(significantly, it routinely does not appear in many other languages unless it is needed to carry tense or other inflectional information). From Wordnik.com. [Descriptions] Reference
A totally new vehicle for the use of human thought, the inflectional, literal, alphabetic. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs] Reference
The inflectional speech, the root of the Sanskrit, was the first language (now the mystery tongue of the Initiates) of the Fifth Race. ". From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
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