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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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Languages with vowel-based "radicals" inflected or derived by changing consonants?
Semitic languages are known for doing quite a bit of their inflection and derivation not via adfixes but via modifications around a triliteral radical of three consonants. …
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What are some examples of well-known agglutinatve languages moving toward inflecting morphol...
We've had questions about inflected languages moving towards analytic morphology and about isolating languages moving to agglutinating morphology but we haven't yet investigated the third case.
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How do linguists distinguish between case endings and postpositions, especially in languages...
In my attempt to learn Georgian, an agglutinative language of the South Caucasus, I have learned that it has both case endings and postpositions.
I also have some familiarity with Korean and Japanese …
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Which prefixing language has the most speakers?
Most if not all national or widely spoken languages with an inflecting or agglutinating typology do all of their inflecting at the end of the word. These are called "suffixing languages".
This is tru …
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Does the classification of languages "agglutinating" concern itself with inflectional morpho...
I had always thought that the terms "agglutinative" and "agglutination" referred to the typology of the inflection in a language. …
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Are there any languages besides Japanese which are both inflecting/agglutinating and do not ...
Many languages have inflectional or agglutinating morphology - they have words with multiple or many forms due to aspect, degree or comparison, gender, mood, number, tense, etc.
A number of languages …
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Are the inflectional endings in English known to have evolved from separate words or do they...
English isn't a highly inflected language, but it did evolve from one and still has at least: -s, -es; -ed, -ing; -er, -est; for nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Do we know if these all evolved from sep …
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What is the maximum number of forms a (modern) Japanese verb can take?
Recently I've begun to wonder how many possible forms can be made from a single Japanese verb.
I asked a similar question first on the Japanese Language & Usage site, where I received some comments a …
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