Definitions
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- adjective of a language That does not use
inflection . - adjective of a word That has not been
inflected .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of the voice) not inflected
- adjective expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection
- adjective not inflected
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Examples
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Somewhat by chance, English has become increasingly uninflected.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Somewhat by chance, English has become increasingly uninflected.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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It's these stories that offered a Raymond Carver engaged in his own kind of experimentation (how bare and uninflected can realism become while still maintaing our interest?), which as far as I can tell is mostly absent in the more elaborated but conventional Lish-less originals.
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The foreign language should be rendered in as rapid and uninflected a manner as possible, also without an accent.
George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands George Heymont 2011
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This spare, uninflected work, sung by Ms. Van Eyck and Mr. Burdette, was almost too understated, its points about the ease of forgetting and the unreliability of photographs as a substitute for memory dissolving along with its music.
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Zero-marking appears in some other places in English: the plural of sheep is sheep, and the conjugated verb eat in I eat fish is indistinguishable from the uninflected infinitival form in I want to eat fish.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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The foreign language should be rendered in as rapid and uninflected a manner as possible, also without an accent.
George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands George Heymont 2011
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Zero-marking appears in some other places in English: the plural of sheep is sheep, and the conjugated verb eat in I eat fish is indistinguishable from the uninflected infinitival form in I want to eat fish.
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The foreign language should be rendered in as rapid and uninflected a manner as possible, also without an accent.
George Heymont: Strangers in Strange Lands George Heymont 2011
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Levy and Richard Fleeshman power their way through an uninflected score: all peaks and pain and big ballads, all orgasm, no flirtation.
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