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Definition of Inflectional
1. Adjective. Characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions. "Inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc."
Definition of Inflectional
1. a. Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.
Definition of Inflectional
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to inflection. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inflectional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflectional
Literary usage of Inflectional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the English Language by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1894)
"Inflectional LEVELLING IN ENGLISH. 325. Our Modern English is called an analytic,
... That is, present English does not rely on inflectional forms for ..."
2. A Brief History of the English Language by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1896)
"In verbs, the stems, as well as the inflectional forms, ... The influences which
have brought about these inflectional changes in English are the two ..."
3. The History of Language by Henry Sweet (1900)
"Concord; the Inflectional Instinct.—As might be expected in so highly inflectional
a language, concord was fully developed, so that adjectives were ..."
4. A Japanese Grammar by Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1868)
"... the inflectional forms, they cannot be better elucidated than by a systematic
synopsis. The writer confines himself to those forms, which have actually ..."
5. A New Method of Learning the German Language: Embracing Both the Analytic by W. H. Woodbury (1874)
"When several adjectives qualify the same noun, the inflectional endings ...
In the nominative and accusative neuter, adjectives often omit the inflectional ..."
6. History of the English Language by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1894)
"That is, present English does not rely on inflectional forms for ... But the
Indo-European family is characterized by "words of the inflectional type and ..."
7. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"The inflectional suffixes, then, are: -en -em -um -У -5 These are parallel to
those of the tenseless paradigm (VII.4. 3), where, however, no 3rd personal ..."
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