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.

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- moderately inflected (such as Russian or Latin), weakly inflected (such as English), but not uninflected (such as Chinese). Languages that are so inflected that...
- traits typical of Germanic languages persist in English, such as the distinction between irregularly inflected strong stems inflected through ablaut (i.e. changing...
- developed from Proto-Germanic during the Early Middle Ages. German is an inflected language, with four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative,...
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- E F G H I J K L Lj M N Nj O P R S Š T U V Z Ž Serbian is a highly inflected language, with grammatical morphology for nouns, pronouns and adjectives as...
- A synthetic language is a language that is statistically characterized by a higher morpheme-to-word ratio. Rule-wise, a synthetic language is characterized...
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- analytic language. Unlike English, many languages use suffixes to specify subjects and objects and word cases in general. Inflected languages have a freer...
- known languages to one or other of these groups, the more so as they are not mutually exclusive. A language may be both agglutinative and inflective, or...