Inflection (definition)

Inflection is the overt indication on a word of grammatical information such as tense, agreement, gender, case, number, [[Person (definition]|person]], aspect and mood

See Also

• Derivational Morphology (definition)
• Irregular Verbs
• Verb Inflection
• Noun Declension

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection

References

• Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.