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
Example Sentences
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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
Turkish language, influence of imported words over the whole native aspect of the, 83. two classes of vowels in, 295. ingenuity of Turkish grammar, 308. its advance towards inflectional forms, 337.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Thus its fundamental distinction between isolating, agglutinative and inflectional languages is arrived at simply by contrasting the different ways in which words are affected by being put together into a sentence.
From Anthropology by R. R. (Robert Ranulph) Marett
But in their morphological nature these phrases are still inflectional.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
In the Huasteca, the governed pronoun separates sometimes the last, sometimes the first syllable of the inflectional form from the stem.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
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