Timeline for How did Latin drop noun declension?
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| Dec 26, 2019 at 17:58 | vote | accept | culebrón | ||
| Dec 23, 2019 at 18:13 | history | edited | culebrón | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 23, 2019 at 18:12 | comment | added | culebrón | @Miztli you're right. I thought infleciton only means declension. Will correct the question text. | |
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| Dec 23, 2019 at 17:03 | history | edited | culebrón | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 23, 2019 at 14:49 | comment | added | LjL | Also nitpicking, but, I definitely wouldn't say English has not dropped noun inflection, especially compared to German or even Romanian... The genitive 's may have arisen as inflection, but that's not really a convincing synchronic explanation, as now it can be applied to entire phrases where the actual words it get tucked onto may not even be a noun at all. That's again aside from plurals of course. | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 12:35 | comment | added | Miztli | This is a bit nit-picky but: "all Romance languages seem to have dropped noun inflexion all together" - that's not strictly true since plural marking is still nominal inflection just not declension. | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 12:00 | answer | added | Eleshar | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 9:34 | comment | added | brass tacks | Romanian nouns are inflected for case, although not as much as in Latin. | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 9:16 | history | asked | culebrón | CC BY-SA 4.0 |