10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLEXIONLESS»
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1
From Latin to Modern French with Especial Consideration of ...
(3) To form the accusative plural all substantives and adjectives, except the
indeclinables (§ 795), add s or z: all are flexionless in the accusative singular. (4)
The forms used for the norninative vary, and according to these variations words
may ...
Mildred Katharine Pope, 1934
2
Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies
THE PRESENT TENSE FLEXIONLESS TERMINATION ^ | ^HERE existed in the
Early Modern period of Irish two I dependent forms of the 3rd sg. present
indicative, viz. -A the form with the -(e)ann termination (e.g. -cailleann), found ...
The noun in these phrases would then presumably be construed as a flexionless
dative, contrasting with the -/-inflexion seen in Hallfredr's verse. Halldor
Hermannsson (1965) favours the view that stallr means "astop, fixed position",
and that ...
Russell Gilbert Poole, 2001
4
Modern Irish: Grammatical Structure and Dialectal Variation
189, 1 90 (full paradigm) 306; flexionless form hheir 193; imperative 3rd sing.
tugadh se 84; fut. 1st sing, tahharfad I09:cond. \stsing.thiuhharfainn 80 tdilliar
tailor 156: gen. tdilliiiir 156; gen. tdilliiira 1 56 tairhhe benefit 69; thairhhe
because 268 ...
5
King Horn: a middle-English romance
It is probable that most monosyllabic nouns in the original possessed it in all
declensions where the O. £. form had it, and so flexionless forms which are easily
accounted for by elision or otherwise are here ignored. Horn, 647, is A. S. ham.
Hus ...
6
Progress in Language with Special Reference to English
... as he puts it in another place: first flexionless analysis, then agglutination, then
flexion, and then again absence of flexion. But these results are only arrived at by
considering a comparatively small number of phenomena, and not by viewing ...
Homer's Nestor of the honied tongue with many flexions ; Demosthenes with
fewer ; Cicero with his adjective cases and genders and his verb moods; Burke in
a nearly flexionless English : who shall say that one of these commanded a ...
8
Language: Its Nature and Development
The direction of movement is towards flexionless languages (such as Chinese, or
to a certain extent Modern English) with freely combinable elements ; the starting-
point was flexional languages (such as Latin or Greek) ; at a still earlier stage ...
9
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics
'The direction of the movement is toward flexionless languages (such as Chinese
, or to a certain extent Modern English) with freely combinable elements' (1922a:
425). If, like Iespersen, one adopted from the misguided nineteenth century the ...
At the same time, the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano offered a simplified (
flexionless, or without variation in word endings) version of Latin called
Interlingua. In 1907, a naturalistically reformed Esperanto called Ido, developed
by ...
Steven Roger Fischer, 1999
