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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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How do linguists distinguish between case endings and postpositions, especially in languages...
Evidently the source you may want for this is the collection "Paradigms: the economy of inflection" edited by Frans Plank, 1991. … Also:
Friedman in Studia gramatyczne, 1991 has a paper titled "Romani nominal inflection: Cases or postpositions" where he examines this question in Romani (and uses Georgian as one of his models). …
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Grammaticalization of third person singular -s in English
PIE *-ti -> PGmc *-di/-ði -> AS -t/-ð/-þ -> ME -th (Southern)/ -s (Northern) -> ModE -s
The Northern -s came from the influence of Norse mediopassive -sk; eventually the Northern usage became standar …
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Are the inflectional endings in English known to have evolved from separate words or do they...
English is generally regarded as having the following 7 inflectional suffixes. All of them have been suffixes since Proto-Indoeuropean, but most have followed a rather circuitous path along the way. T …
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