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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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Are there languages that mark different types of volition or causality morphologically?
Sure. Lushootseed has two different object pronoun paradigms, depending on whether the action predicated was performed volitionally or not. For example:
ʔu-k̉ʷəɬ-əd-čəd tə-qʷu 'I poured the water'
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stem classes and the terms "fusional" / "inflectional"
All inflection is paradigmatic, but there are different kinds of paradigms.
Fusional languages like Latin have multi-dimensional paradigms. …
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Do modal auxiliaries in English never change their forms?
Yes, modal auxiliary verbs do not inflect, hence they never change their form.
may, shall, will, and can are formed from present stems
might, should, would, could, and must are formed from past stems …
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difference between Isolating (analytics) vs inflected (fusional) vs agglutinative languages
As a subtype of Synthetic grammars, there are two distinct types of inflection.
Fusion (or amalgamation).
Latin (and almost all other I-E languages) uses fusional inflection. … There is a cline -- among synthetic grammars -- between Fusional and Agglutinative inflection. …
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Are fusional languages easier to learn than isolating languages?
I'm not sure what Mark actually said, since no direct quotation or link was given.
And if he did say something like that, I likewise have no idea where he got the information.
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