ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DESINENCE
From French désinence, from Latin dēsinēns ending, from dēsinere to leave off, from de- + sinere to leave, permit.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESINENCE»
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The Slovene Dialect of Resia: San Giorgio
4.3.2 Distribution of alternative desinences 4.3.2.l Nominative/accusative singular
(unstressed) As the substantives with the Nsg <-a> desinence and Asg <-o>
desinence are in the majority, the listing will be restricted to those that take the
zero ...
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Balto-Slavic Accentual Mobility
The hiatal desinence regularly yielded a Proto-Balto-Slavic unaccented form *
ˌgāˀluāˀn by the Mobility Law, preserved in li gálva. In Balto-Slavic the
desinence was extended by a nasal of uncertain origin, e.g. East li runkù, lv
rùoku and the ...
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Morphophonemic Variability, Productivity, and Change: The ...
It is in combination with this desinence that the human/non-human distinction
seems to be still somewhat in flux, having stabilized only in Polish. And it is in
combination with this desinence that the morphophonemic alternations
associated ...
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Current Trends in linguistics
The third syllable, counting from the desinence boundary backwards, shows the
greatest restrictions and can be considered the most marked (or weakest)
position of the accentual interval. The stem-desinence alternation involves this
position ...
Thomas Albert Sebeok, 1963
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A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian
14 Forms of the verb 14.1 Some descriptive terms Most verb forms have the
following basic structure: root (+ thematic vowel) + grammatical desinence(s) The
'root' is the part of the verb expressing the lexical meaning of the verb (e.g., 'sing',
...
Martin Maiden, Cecilia Robustelli, 2014
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Selected Writings: Word and Language
If L merges with D or with G, the L desinence is used, but if all three cases merge,
they use the G desinence. The I undergoes merger only if all the oblique cases
fall together. IV. The declensional suffixes are divided into 1) zero, and 2) real ...
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Russian and Slavic Grammar: Studies, 1931-1981
/volas/ ~ GPl/valos/ both forms with a zero desinence are differentiated by the
place of stress. In a series of nouns, the numbers are distinguished not only by
inflectional suffixes but also by a special stem suffix. In such nouns the GP1 has a
...
Roman Jakobson, Linda R. Waugh, Morris Halle, 1984
A fighter that had slunk away when the fight had begun, approached Analecta
and Desinence. Their fast moving bodies moving in a blur of a dance, graceful
and deadly. He gripped his short axe tightly in his hand trying to move in slow
and ...
Lawrence Sylou-Creutz Ojermark, 2011
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The Ancient Languages of Europe
Thus, for example, the oldest recoverable declension of the Proto-Indo-European
word for “father” (Go. fadar) was of the hysterokinetic type, with nominative
singular ∗ph2-t ́ ̄er (zero-grade root, accented ̄e-grade suffix, zero desinence),
...
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Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911-1934
0 «-» [ + direct] / + THEME + _ _ / L— thematic J n «-» [ + direct] (elsewhere) The
theme of a masc.nom.sg. class I stem such as krit- is spelled -e- by (28b), and
then its desinence is subject to the elsewhere clause of spell-out rule (33c),
which ...
Carsten Jensen, Finn Aaserud, 2000
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESINENCE»
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Paris : Twice (again…) – Les translations paysagistes by Cyrille …
The transparency of three glass plates onto which the same image has been printed three times adds to the desinence of the image. «The Eye of Photography, Mar 15»
Terrorists have darkened Islam's image. Sadly, Muslims let it happen
In grammatical terms, the u is the nominative desinence added to Allah to link it to the verb akbar. Straightforward enough. But as most Sufis, ... «Globe and Mail, Apr 13»
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... War) and a City Paper critic's pick for Bravest Production (Desinence: An Evening of Work by Samuel Beckett). Leah Walton is playing Susan. «Broadway World, Apr 10»
