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The patterns of changing endings in inflecting languages which cover multiple properties of a word such as tense, mood, person, number, case, etc. This general term covers conjugation of verbs and declension of nouns and adjectives.
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Is there a term for "lexeme-describing grammatical feature"?
Yes, gender is generally a noun class. If you go outside common European languages, you will find that in languages of the world, there is a whole range of non-gender-based noun categories. Even in IE …
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difference between Isolating (analytics) vs inflected (fusional) vs agglutinative languages
Otherwise the derivation and even most inflection is based on the same principle of one morpheme per one function and in this respect may be considered agglutinative. …
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How did Latin drop noun declension?
It differs from language to language but in general, it is attributed to the case forms becoming too similar to maintain the distinction due to various sound changes.
E.g. in Old French, this is typi …
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Why did English evolve to have so little inflection?
The reason why English lost most of its inflection actually has very little to do with grammar at all - it is caused by sound change. … Given the specific requirements to create new inflection, there is indeed a sort of a "trend" to lose inflection (given how unbelievably complex the PIE language was), however new inflections still arise …
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Is there a name for self-reference in verbs?
What you are aiming at is probably "reflexive" verbs, however most verbs that permit this are not really reflexive verbs. To get closer understanding, we need to look at certain verb classes in genera …
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