Materially the copula is expressed by some part of the verb 'to be,' with or without the negative, or else is wrapped up in some inflexional form of a verb.
An elaborate account of Grafton was written in 1901 by Mr J.
Its verbal conjugation is essentially different from that of an inflexional language like Latin, and cannot be compressed into the same categories.
The inflexional languages call in the aid of a new principle.
The Semitic family of speech is therefore a much more characteristic type of the inflexional languages than is the Indo-European.
On the other hand, two or more languages may agree in the negative fact of having a small and scanty vocabulary, and an inflexional system equally limited.
In these particular words, then, the inflexionalpart has been English; even when the radical was foreign.
In examining the metrical treatment of the Early English inflexional endings, we shall therefore have occasion to consider the usage of the present day, notwithstanding the fact that some of these endings are obsolete in modern prose.
It is indispensable to the investigator of the history of the language, since it supplies sometimes the only (or at all events the surest) means of restoring the older pronunciation of word-stems, and of inflexional terminations.
We therefore confine our remarks to the formative and inflexional syllables, which, though as a rule found only in thesis, admit of being treated metrically in three different ways.
If an inflexional -e is added to such words, so as to make them trisyllables, it is commonly elided or apocopated, e.
It has led, in the historical development of the language, to a gradual weakening, and finally, in many instances, to a total loss of the inflexional endings.
English, in short, has almost ceased to be inflexional and has become analytic.
The reader is recommended to compare it word for word with the parallel slightly modernised version, bearing in mind the inflexional terminations.
Seems to be a case of the Norse inflexional r not disappearing in Sco.
Other consonantal and inflexional forms that are Scand.
An inflexional language has quite lost the memory of the real meaning of its inflexions--or at least the real reason of them.
When we have come to this inflexional state, the history of the growth of language comes to an end.
It is called the inflexional or inflected stage, because the different grammatical changes are not now denoted by a mere addition to an intelligible word, but by a change in the word itself.
Here we have the inflexional character in its most perfect form; i.
On the other hand, two or more such languages agree in the negative fact of having a small and scanty vocabulary, and an inflexional system equally limited; whilst, again, the scantiness of inflexion may arise from one of two causes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflexional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
