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Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. The inflection of verbs is called conjugation, whereas the inflection of nouns, adjectives…

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In various languages, Declension and conjugation & Inflectional morphology

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Regular and irregular inflection

Declension and conjugation

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Inflectional morphology

In various languages

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Triples211
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008696
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related to Further reading · 51
Inflection → An, Andrew, Arnold, Bauer, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, DC, De Reuse, Francis, Georgetown University Press, Gregory, Handbooks, Haspelmath, Head-marking, Inflectional Morphology, Introducing, ISBN, Johanna, Jr, Katamba
related to Lexicon of Linguistics articles · 20
Inflection → Agglutinating Language, AGR, Base, Conjugation, DeclensionLexicon, Defective ParadigmLexicon, DerivationLexicon, Fusional Morphology, INFL, Inflection Phrase, IP, Isolating Language, Lexicalist Hypothesis, Lexicon, Linguistics, Polysynthetic LanguageLexicon, RootLexicon, Stem, Strong VerbLexicon, TenseLexicon
related to Uralic languages (agglutinative) · 17
Inflection → Almost, English, Estonian, European Union, Finnic, Finnish, For, Grammatical, However, Hungarian, Proto-Uralic, Sami, The, The Estonian, The Uralic, This, Uralic
related to Indo-European languages (fusional) · 16
Inflection → Ancient Greek, Because, Czech, Deflexion, In, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Latin, Marathi, Modern English, Most Slavic, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old Norse, Proto-Indo-European, Sanskrit
related to Arabic (fusional) · 13
Inflection → Egyptian Arabic, For, Gulf Arabic, It, Jordanian Arabic, Lebanese, Literary Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Regional Arabic, Suffix, Syrian Arabic, The
related to Altaic languages (agglutinative) · 12
Inflection → Almost, Altaic, Azerbaijani, English, Grammatical, Manchu-Tungus, Mongolic, The, Though, Turkic, Turkish, Uzbek
related to Inflectional paradigm · 11
Inflection → An, For, In, In Old English, Indo-European, Japanese, Latin, Meanwhile, Nominal, The, Words
related to Auxiliary languages · 9
Inflection → Esperanto, Frater, Glosa, Ido, Interlingua, Lingua Franca Nova, Other, Some, Volapük
related to Examples in English · 8
Inflection → Anglo-Saxon, English, French, Latin, Most, Most English, Some English, There
related to Inflectional morphology · 7
Inflection → Affixation, Alternation, Germanic, Languages, Morphemes, Reduplication, Suprasegmental

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inflected case languages verb number english nouns word verbs language noun forms form inflectional also tense plural person called adjectives

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tenseinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
caseinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
voiceinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
aspectinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
personinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
numberinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
genderinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
moodinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
animacyinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
and definitenessinstance ofis a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories0.80text
Latininstance ofolder Indo-European languages0.80text
Ancient Greekinstance ofolder Indo-European languages0.80text

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