Definition of Inflective language. Meaning of Inflective language. Synonyms of Inflective language

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Definition of Inflective language

Inflective language
Inflective In*flect"ive, a. 1. Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air. --Derham. 2. (Gram.) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection. Inflective language (Philol.), a language like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

Meaning of Inflective language from wikipedia

- Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single...
- moderately inflected (such as Russian or Latin), weakly inflected (such as English), but not uninflected (such as Chinese). Languages that are so inflected that...
- developed from Proto-Germanic during the Early Middle Ages. German is an inflected language, with four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative,...
- different sense. Another related term is figura etymologica. In inflected languages (such as Latin), polyptoton is the repetition of a word in different...
- traits typical of Germanic languages persist in English, such as the distinction between irregularly inflected strong stems inflected through ablaut (i.e. changing...
- nouns and verbs; prefixes are exclusively inflective, whereas suffixes can be inflective or derivational. Inflective prefixes are quite short, often composed...
- Germanic languages, and resembles Old Norwegian before much of its fusional inflection was lost. Modern Icelandic is still a heavily inflected language with...
- ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the...
- spellings be deemed correct. French is a moderately inflected language. Nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most...
- A synthetic language is a language that is statistically characterized by a higher morpheme-to-word ratio. Rule-wise, a synthetic language is characterized...