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  Inflection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modern English is considered a weakly inflected language, since its nouns have only vestiges of inflection (plurals, the pronouns), and its regular verbs have only three forms: an inflected form for the past indicative and subjunctive (looked), an inflected form for the third-person-singular present indicative (looks), and an uninflected form for everything else (look).
A Basque noun is inflected in 17 different ways for case, multiplied by 4 ways for its definiteness and number.
In English many nouns are inflected for number with the inflectional plural affix -s (as in "dog" → "dog-s"), and most English verbs are inflected for tense with the inflectional past tense affix -ed (as in "call" → "call-ed").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inflection   (1627 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Inflected language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All Indo-European languages, such as English, German, Russian, Spanish, French, and Hindi are inflected to a greater or lesser extent.
A Basque noun is inflected in 17 different ways for case, times 4 ways for its definiteness and number, and those first 68 forms are just a start, since the case depends on other parts of the sentence, which in turn are inflected for the noun again.
Although Old English was an inflected language, Modern English is considered a weakly inflected language, since its nouns have only vestiges of inflection (plurals, the pronouns), and its regular verbs have only 2 inflections: Third person singular, and everything else.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Inflected-language   (1371 words)

  
 Inflected language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In an inflected language words change form according to grammatical - this is called inflection.
These languages inflect words to such degree that a single word is often as an entire sentence in most other A Mohawk word often given as an is Washakotya'tawitsherahetkvhta'se which means "He made the thing one puts on one's body ugly for i.e.
For Spanish French German and the Scandinavian languages all inflect nouns and adjectives to grammatical gender.
www.freeglossary.com /Inflected_language   (764 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As soon as tentacles, which have remained closely inflected during several days over an object, begin to re-expand, their glands secrete less freely, or cease to secrete, and are left dry.
The marginal tentacles on this side closed inwards and killed the fly, and after a time the edge of the leaf on this side also became inflected, and thus remained for several days, whilst neither the tentacles nor the edge on the opposite side were in the least affected.
In one of these leaves there was only a slight degree of aggregation in the tentacles; in the second rather more, the purple contents of the cells being a little separated from the walls; in the third and fourth, which were pale leaves, the aggregation in the upper parts of the pedicels was well marked.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/insec10.txt   (19512 words)

  
 Merriam-Webster Online
On the other hand, if the inflected form is created in an irregular way or if the dictionary user is likely to have doubts about it (even though it is formed regularly), the inflected form is shown in boldface, either in full or cut back to a convenient and easily recognizable point.
Another inflected form of English verbs is the third person singular of the present tense, which is regularly formed by the addition of -s or -es to the base form of the verb.
The inclusion of inflected forms in -er and -est at adjective and adverb entries means nothing more about the use of more and most with these adjectives and adverbs than that their comparative and superlative degrees may be expressed in either way; lazier or more lazy; laziest or most lazy.
www.m-w.com /help/dictnotes/inflec.htm   (738 words)

  
 The writings of Charles Darwin on the web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The four leaves which had been immersed in the solution, besides being inflected, presented a widely different appearance; for the contents of the cells of every single tentacle on all four leaves were conspicuously aggregated; the spheres and elongated masses of protoplasm in many cases extending halfway down the tentacles.
Three of them had their tentacles strongly inflected and their blades curled inwards; five were slightly and somewhat doubtfully affected, having from three to eight of their exterior tentacles inflected: one leaf was not at all affected, yet was afterwards acted on by saliva.
The few tentacles on the leaves in water which were inflected had after this interval re-expanded, with the exception of one leaf; and this presented the very unusual case of the blade being somewhat inflected, though in a degree hardly approaching that of the two leaves in the solution.
pages.britishlibrary.net /charles.darwin3/insectivorous/insect07.htm   (13231 words)

  
 Inflected language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Such highly inflected languages are also called polysynthetic languages.
On a continuum from highly inflected to highly isolating, most modern Indo-European languages lie toward the inflected end.
But there are many exceptions among the pronouns: for example, who, whose, and whom are inflected nominative, genitive, and accusative/dative (merged during Middle English) forms of the same word.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/inflected_language   (732 words)

  
 Language interpreter for inflecting words from their uninflected forms - Patent 4594686
An inflection enabling circuit is responsive to the selection functions of the inflection selection keyboard for inflecting the uninflected word according to the desired inflection principles derived from the third memory, to obtain the properly inflected word.
The predicative use is selected by the actuation of the key switch 52, in which case the operation of the second amend circuit 75 is prevented and the inflected form from the first amend circuit 73 is sent to and indicated in the display 69 without further inflection.
Inflected forms "des", "dem", and "den" from the uninflected form "der" are generated by the inflection memory 63 and applied to the inflection circuit 67.
www.freepatentsonline.com /4594686.html   (4882 words)

  
 Word endings inflection means for use with electronic translation device - Patent 4420817
It is a further object of the present invention to provide an improved electronic language interpreter with the faculties of omitting the memory of a plurality kinds of inflected words, thereby minimizing the storage capacity of a memory.
The inflected word is transferred to the inflected forms register R. The second detection circuit 11 compares output signals from the inflected forms register R and those from the register 1.
When the inflected word "asked" produced by the inflection circuit 10 is entered to the second detection circuit 11, the second detection circuit 11 develops output signals 12 showing the occurrence of the correspondence, so that the examination of the word "asked" is terminated.
www.freepatentsonline.com /4420817.html   (5522 words)

  
 VERBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The principal parts of a regularly inflected verb are shown when it is desirable to indicate the pronunciation of one of the inflected forms:
Cutback inflected forms are often used when the verb has three or more syllables, when it is a disyllable that ends in -l and has variant spellings, and when it is a compound whose second element is readily recognized as an irregular verb:
This inflected form is not shown except at a handful of entries (as have and do) for which it is in some way anomalous.
www-ccs.cs.umass.edu /mw/Mwed00000072.html   (180 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The file "infl.txt" is an automatically created database of the inflected forms of words from a rather large word list.
that means that the part-of-speech was not in the part-of-speech database however the inflected forms of the word where found in the word list.
Sometimes the inflected form to use depends on the meaning of the word.
wordlist.sourceforge.net /agid-readme   (1270 words)

  
 abstract18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Inflected forms may be derived from an uninflected base form by rule application; by contrast, both regular and irregular inflection may be treated in the same way, with morphological patterns emerging from mappings between base and inflected forms.
In all cases, differences in response latencies were predicted by the frequency of the surface form whether uninflected or inflected.
The pattern of results lends support for a unitary associative system for processing regular inflection of nouns in English and argues against the view that regular inflected plurals are derived by rule from a single, uninflected lexical entry.
www.ku.edu /~kuppl/abstracts/poeim.html   (202 words)

  
 Inflected Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It's best to speak of languages not as inflected or uninflected, but according to the degree of their inflection.
English nouns are inflected in only a few forms, to show number and possession; our pronouns are a little more complicated.
Old English, though, was more thoroughly inflected, with far more forms than survived into Middle English.
www.english.upenn.edu /~jlynch/Terms/Temp/inflected.html   (182 words)

  
 Engl401 | Lessons | Inflection in Old English
A language is said to be "inflected" when changes in the form of the language's words alter their meaning.
Old English verbs, nouns, pronouns and adjectives are all inflected, and change their forms according to their position or meaning in a sentence.
If you already know well a language that is more highly inflected than English, such as Latin, Icelandic, Hindi, or German, you will be well prepared for what you are about to learn.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl401/lessons/inflect.htm   (1141 words)

  
 General Differences between SAE and AAVE
Among auxiliaries and lexical verbs, only non-habitual be (be auxiliary in progressives and copular be)  inflects to agree in the present tense.
inflected lexical be (is reduces to ’s; am reduces to ’m; are reduces to ’re)
inflected lexical be (reduces to nothing if the verb is is and the subject is not it; am reduces to ’m; is reduces to ’s after it.
www.wsu.edu /~gordonl/S2003/326/SAE_AAVE.htm   (1528 words)

  
 Adjective Inflection in Swedish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Swedish, adjectives are inflected to express degree and agreement, and both types of inflection will be dealt with here.
They are inflected to express number (singular or plural), gender (common or neuter), and the distinction strong/weak.
They are not inflected for number or gender, but can express the strong/weak distinction.
stp.ling.uu.se /call/swedish/fredreng.html   (596 words)

  
 Inflected Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chinese is a language of simplicity and flexibility as there is no need for a...
English, in order to ask a question, the last word of the sentence in inflected.
The Congolese version of Swahili is heavily inflected with Lingala and it carries...
www.wikiverse.org /inflected-language   (813 words)

  
 Inflected Language Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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www.artlives.com /cgi-bin/search.cgi?category=encyclopedia&search=Inflected+language   (1772 words)

  
 Cherokee language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Verbs can also have prepronominal prefixes, reflexive prefixes, and derivative suffixes.
Given all possible combinations of affixes, each regular verb can have 21,262 inflected forms.
Cherokee is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah (a.k.a.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherokee_language   (577 words)

  
 e-Literate
The title of this post was also the title of a talk by Barbara Taranto, the Director of the Digital Library Program at the New York Public Library at yesterday’s FIT conference.
While it wouldn’t be fair to say that the Moodle community hasn’t put significant thought into scalability and integration issues, I would say that the design requirement for ease of tinkering throughout the entire Moodle architecture imposes pretty significant limitations on the software’s ability to scale in various ways.
So I think it’s important for an education inflected architecture to distinguish between the user-facing layer, which should be optimized for easy “tinkering”, as Kraus puts it, and the develoepr-facing layer, which should be optimized for ease of integration and scalability.
mfeldstein.com   (3512 words)

  
 Stempel - Algorithmic Stemmer for Polish Language
a pattern found in a word which is common to all inflected forms or within a family of languages).
The result of lemmatization is a correct existing word, often in nominative case for nouns and infinitive form for verbs.
Sets with 3 or less inflected forms were removed, so that the final corpus consisted of ~69,000 unique sets, which in turn contained ~1.5 mln inflected forms.
getopt.org /stempel   (2074 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sentences inflected for two arguments and with zero, one, or two co-referential nominal arguments can be understood as allosentences, sentences which are "semantically equivalent but formally and pragmatically divergent" (Lambrecht 1994:6).
Transitive constructions in Arapaho include verbs inflected for one animate agent, verbs inflected for an animate agent and an inanimate patient, and verbs inflected for an animate agent and an inanimate patient.
Verbs which are inflected for two animate arguments may license a third argument.
www.colorado.edu /ling/events/LINGCircle/Francis_Abstract.html   (285 words)

  
 Inflected Forms
The inflected forms recorded in this dictionary include the plurals of nouns; the past tense, the past participle when it differs from the past tense, and the present participle of verbs; and the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.
The inflected forms of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are shown in this dictionary when suffixation brings about a change in final y to i, when the word ends in -ey, when there are variant inflected forms, and when the dictionary user might have doubts about the spelling of the inflected form:
The inflected forms of verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are also shown whenever suffixation brings about a doubling of a final consonant, elision of a final e, or a radical change in the base word itself.
www.csmc.edu /mwmedical/inflect.htm   (413 words)

  
 What is inflection?
They often specify when an event or situation took place, who or what were the participants, and sometimes where, how or whether an event or situation really took place.
Example: The main verb of an English sentence must be inflected for subject and tense.
In the following Spanish noun phrase, las and rojas are inflected for agreement with manzanas in grammatical gender by -a and in number by -s:
www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsInflection.htm   (231 words)

  
 Adûnaic
Furthermore, it is inflected for three forms that may be called cases: A so-called Normal form, a Subjective form and an Objective form.
These are the inflected verbs that occur in Lowdham's Report and in the final forms of the Adûnaic fragments (I give the subject of the verbs because the verb may somehow agree with its subject).
Our sole inflected example of a derived verb, azaggara "was warring", would by its English translation seem to be a continuative past form.
www.uib.no /People/hnohf/adunaic.htm   (7754 words)

  
 Lynch, Literary Terms — Inflection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It's not a question of whether or not a language is inflected; every natural language involves some changes in its basic word forms.
Most English nouns are inflected only to show number (cat, cats); in other languages, inflections can show gender (French etudiant, etudiante), grammatical relation, and other things.
Most English adjectives aren't inflected at all, but they are in many other languages.
www.andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/inflect.html   (179 words)

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