inflectional

Examples

• All

• Although English has both inflectional and derivational morphological processes, it is the derivational processes that are of particular interest in the present study.

  Academic text (2012)

• They are characterized by prosodic features, repetitive inflectional patterns, and formulaic phrases that distinguish them both from the gewe'l praise singing and from ordinary conversation.

  Academic text (1990)

• English inflectional morphology is limited, but the derivation process is richer.

  Academic text (2012)

• In fact, because of that language's use of inflectional suffixes, rhyming words are so common in Italian that avoiding rhyme completely is probably as difficult as using a simple verse form.

  Academic text (2003)

• One of the more interesting questions in Latin instruction has been the process by which the reader focuses attention on word meanings, word order cues, and cues given by the inflectional endings.

  Academic text (2001)

• As these examples suggest, educators can teach English–Spanish spelling correspondences, inflectional regularities, and semantic categories through the cognates.

  Academic text (2013)

• In general, children in the primary elementary grades demonstrate greater awareness of inflectional forms than derivational forms; it is around third grade that children typically demonstrate greater awareness of derivational morphology (e.g., Kuo & Anderson, 2006).

  Academic text (2014)

• Not surprisingly, then, inflectional morphological awareness is mostly associated with literacy skills in younger elementary school students rather than with the literacy skills of upper-grade elementary school students (e.g., Carlisle & Nomanbhoy, 1993).

  Academic text (2014)

• In English, inflectional endings change the form of the words to indicate tense or number.

• The study focused on inflectional changes in various languages to illustrate how grammar impacts meaning.

Synonyms

I

inflected

vsinflectional

• Specialized

7.2

Words that change endings to show tense, number, or case

is about relating to those form changes rather than the changed word itself

N

nonanalytical

vsinflectional

• Specialized

9.6

Using word endings to show tense, case, or number instead of separate words

is about involving form changes, not about a language's main grammatical strategy

Compounds

I

inflectional ending

• Specialized

6.1

Letters added to the end of a word to show grammar, such as tense, number or case

I

inflectional morphology

• Specialized

9.3

The way word endings change to show tense, number, or case

I

inflectional suffix

• Specialized

7.3

An ending added to a word to show tense or number without changing its main meaning

How Inflectable

inflectional

• Specialized

8.2

formable

• Specialized

4.8

invariable

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Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology