inflectional
/in-flek-shuh-nl/US // ɪnˈflɛk ʃə nl //
屈折语,屈折词,词性,词义
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of, relating to, or used in inflection: an inflectional ending.
- : Linguistics. pertaining to or noting a language, as Latin, characterized by the use of inflection, especially morphemic fusion or irregular morphophonemic alternation.Compare agglutinative, isolating.
Examples
The inflectional -e of cherubine, seraphine appears to be quite isolated.
Such isolated inflectional changes as saveit into savoit, which are cases of regular phonetic changes, are not noticed here.
Thus the inflectional system serves to relieve, in part at least, the very difficulty which it creates.
In the inflectional languages each word is like a soldier in his place with his outfit.
In one respect in the inflectional forms of the verb, the purist was unexpectedly successful.
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