What is the primary function of inflection?

Mar 14, 2016 ... ... Inflection in an Agglutinative Language: Evidence from Hungarian. PLOS ONE, 10 (3). e0119003. ISSN 1932-6203. [img]. Preview. Text ASL users inflect their signs to modify the meaning of the signs. For example, instead of using a sign for "VERY" in the sentence, "I am very happy to be done ... May 10, 2017 ... The biggest barrier to learning Finnish is not the extensive system of cases and inflections, or even the uniqueness of the vocabulary. Perhaps ... Many languages allow a pronoun to go unpronounced in the presence of inflectional marking for person and number. This paper explores the hypothesis that ... The "English isn't very inflected" argument is weak: yes, it doesn't have some of the inflections other Indo-European languages do, but the majority of words in ... Second : The purpose of a student in taking up the study of Ger- man is primarily to acquire a proficiency in the use of the language. Sep 24, 2013 ... Verbs were inflected to indicate person, number, tense and mood. Hence, the Old English grammar is much more closely related to modern German ... ABSTRACT. This article presents an analysis of the inflection of the Spanish verb produced during the development of a generation grammar of Spanish for the. The inflection of Verbs to denote voice, mood, tense, number, and person is called Conjugation, and the verb is said to be conjugated. In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical ...