Inflectional Morphology (Noun)
Meaning
The part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The linguistics textbook emphasized the importance of understanding inflectional morphology in language acquisition.
- In her thesis, the graduate student analyzed the inflectional morphology of several endangered languages to identify patterns and trends.
- The inflectional morphology of English is relatively simple compared to that of other languages such as Russian or Arabic.
- Inflectional morphology plays a crucial role in distinguishing between grammatical functions, such as subject and object, in many languages.
- The language instructor spent several lessons teaching the inflectional morphology of verbs in the present, past, and future tenses.