Sentence examples for inflectional language from inspiring English sources

'inflectional language' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It describes languages that invest words with grammatical meaning through changes in form. For example: "French is an inflectional language, so nouns and adjectives are often followed by a suffix."

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English, as an inflectional language, makes heavy use of derivational morphology to signal semantic correlations (e.g. interesting vs. interested).

The above cases demonstrate different types of dual-subject or multi-subject EPs that may alternate between Experiencer vs. Stimulus, or Stimulus vs. Affector subject roles without variations in lexical form, while such alternations are normally accompanied with derivations in an inflectional language such as English.

Quenya allows for a very flexible word order because it is an inflectional language like Latin.

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Chinese, a morphologically non-inflectional language, is visibly different from inflectional languages in terms of verb morphology changes but similar in terms of subject and object transformation movements.

Speech recognition still performs poorly in inflectional languages compared to mainstream languages like English.

It is estimated that inflectional languages need up to ten times larger vocabularies than English [1, 2].

We based the proposed models on the property of grammatical matching in inflectional languages, in which the properties of some words correlate with the properties of other words.

The three attested morphological cases suggest that three lexicalization patterns may be distinguished, which may take a different form in a non-inflectional language like Mandarin.

However, the verbal vs. adjectival morphological distinction may be blurred in a non-inflectional language such as Mandarin (see Section 3.1).

With the aim to investigate EPs in Mandarin Chinese, a major non-inflectional language outside the Indo-European family, this study will further elaborate on the abovementioned distinctions and inquire about the possible range of lexical-constructional associations that are semantically distinct and grammatically realized in the lexicon of emotion.

Modern Welsh, like English, makes very little use of inflectional endings; British, the Brythonic language from which Welsh is descended, was, however, an inflecting language like Latin, with word endings marking such grammatical categories as noun case and verb tense.

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