• unambiguous inflections. weak: der gute Wein (nom) den guten Wein (acc) dem guten Wein (dat) - articles signal case, so adjectives need less inflectional specificity...
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  • view[citation needed] is that the mixed inflection is not a true inflection in its own right, but merely the weak inflection with a few additions to compensate...
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  • Weak nouns are nouns that follow a weak inflection paradigm, in contrast with strong nouns. They are present in several Germanic languages. Modern English...
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  • alternative system in the same language, which is then known as a weak inflection. The term strong was coined with reference to the Germanic verb, but...
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  • ihr-, etc.). It is like the weak inflection, but in forms where the weak inflection has the ending -e, the mixed inflection replaces these with the forms...
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    dicho. strong vs. weak inflection: In some cases, two inflection systems exist, conventionally classified as "strong" and "weak." For instance, English...
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  • Compared to its progenitor, Swedish grammar is much less characterized by inflection. Modern Swedish has two genders and no longer conjugates verbs based on...
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  • Germanic strong verbs by the fact that their past tense form is marked by an inflection containing a /t/, /d/, or /ð/ sound (as in English I walk~I walked) rather...
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  • (strong, weak, & present-preterite) and two categories of nouns (strong, weak). Conjugation and declension are carried out by a mix of inflection and two...
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  • by means of a dental suffix Weak inflection, a system of verb conjugation contrasted with an alternative "strong inflection" in the same language Light...
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  • – they are people from Europe (both sexes) There are 4 classes of weak inflection of verbs (with some underclasses). E.g.: stem-final -a, 2–3.pers.sg...
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  • emphasis; see Weak and strong forms in English Weak and strong pronouns Weakened weak form (mathematics) Clitic (linguistics) Weak inflection (linguistics)...
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  • case. There are three inflection possibilities depending on what precedes the adjective. They most commonly use weak inflection when preceded by a definite...
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    adjectives, etc.) Inflection Redundancy (linguistics) Screeve Strong inflection Verb Verb argument Volition (linguistics) Weak inflection Category:Grammatical...
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    that is marked by different sets of inflectional endings for adjectives, the so-called strong and weak inflections. A similar development happened in the...
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  • generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence by way of an inflection. Declension may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners...
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  • and "weak", according to the way the past tense is formed. The present tense inflection of these two groups derives from the PIE thematic inflection. A...
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  • while for the weak verbs a different method (addition of dental suffixes) developed. Irregularities in verb conjugation (and other inflectional irregularities)...
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    noun-ending patterns from the more complex system of inflection in Old English: Nouns of the weak declension are primarily inherited from Old English n-stem...
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  • "indefinite" and "definite" adjective inflection, much like Germanic strong and weak inflection. The definite inflection was used to refer to specific or known...
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  • Havlík's law (redirect from Weak jer)
    Janda (1996). Common and Comparative Slavic Phonology and Inflection: Phonology and Inflection: With Special Attention to Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croatian...
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  • distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single inflectional morphemes to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features...
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  • p. 229 (no separate endings). Bilderdijk (1826), p. 94. For the "weak" inflection, see the corresponding section in Middle Dutch. Exercitium puerorum...
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  • Suffix (redirect from Inflectional suffix)
    carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information (derivational/lexical suffixes). Inflection changes the grammatical properties...
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  • happiness derive from the root word happy. It is differentiated from inflection, which is the modification of a word to form different grammatical categories...
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  • Nynorsk (section Inflection)
    characterized by noun inflection alone; each gender can have further inflectional forms. That is, gender can determine the inflection of other parts of speech...
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  • made are that some inflectional categories always take the strong form (e.g. partitive plural, -ma infinitive), some always take the weak form (e.g. -tud...
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    of this type tended to be drawn into the weak inflection by analogy. The following table shows the inflection of the masculine noun dach "day", feminine...
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  • to that of the Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining many of the inflections thought to have been common in Proto-Indo-European and also including...
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    of a larger process in which the distinction between the strong and weak inflection was being lost not only in feminine nouns but also in adjectives. The...
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