inflectional
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or used in inflection.
an inflectional ending.
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Linguistics. pertaining to or noting a language, as Latin, characterized by the use of inflection, especially morphemic fusion or irregular morphophonemic alternation.
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Etymology
Origin of inflectional
First recorded in 1825–35; inflection + -al 1
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But in their morphological nature these phrases are still inflectional.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Old Irish, as compared with Brythonic, preserves a wealth of inflectional forms in declension and conjugation, but many of these tend to disappear very early.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Nor is it necessary to distinguish between synthetic and analytical languages, including under the former name the ancient, and under the latter the modern, languages of the inflectional class.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
The Brythonic dialects have gone very much farther in giving up inflectional endings than Goidelic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Reval Esthonian, which preserves more carefully the full inflectional forms and pays greater attention to the laws of euphony, is recognized as the literary language.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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