Entertainment / Literature / Inflected: An inflective or inflected language is one like Latin, German, or Anglo-Saxon, in which special endings called declensions appear on the end of noun-stems to indicate case. Contrast with analytic and agglutinative languages.
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Entertainment / Literature / Uninflected Genitive: A genitive that has no case ending to signal its function. A number of such uninflected genitives appeared in Early Modern English--especially for nouns that originally were feminine in Anglo-Saxon gr MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Inflected Infinitive: In Old English, an infinitive with declension endings attached and used as a noun--a source of much frustration to graduate students trying to translate Anglo-Saxon texts. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Uninflected Plural: A plural word identical to its singular form. For instance, 'I saw one deer yesterday, but last week I saw five deer.' Here, the word deer is identical whether it is singular or plural. Other examples MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Analytic: A language is analytic if it requires a certain word order to make grammatical sense--often this requires extensive use of prepositions and auxiliary verbs. For instance, take the sentence, 'The dog b MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Genitive: A declension in any synthetic (i.e. Heavily inflected) language that indicates possession. In many Old English singular nouns, an -es declension attached to the end of that noun would indicate the gen MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Inflective: An inflective or inflected language is one like Latin, German, or Anglo-Saxon, in which special endings called declensions appear on the end of noun-stems to indicate case. Contrast with analytic and MORE