Declension Set

A Declension Set is a maximal word inflection set that an Inflectional Process can generate from a Noun Lexeme.

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• Example(s):
  • {chat, chats} for the CHAT_1_NOUN base word (where one of the word senses is uncountable).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • any Conjugation.
• See: Inflection.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension Retrieved:2017-6-18.
  • In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number (at least singular and plural), case (nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.), and gender. A declension is also a group of nouns that follow a particular pattern of inflection.

    Declension occurs in many of the world's languages, and features very prominently in many European languages. Old English was a moderately inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

2009A

• (Wiktionary, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/declension
  • Noun
    • 1. (grammar): A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
      • In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in 'i' in the genitive singular and 'um' in the accusative singular.
    • 2. (grammar): The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
  • Hypernyms
    • inflection
    • inflexion
  • Coordinate terms
    • conjugation

2009B

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=declension
  • S: (n) declension (the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages)
  • S: (n) deterioration, decline in quality, declension, worsening (process of changing to an inferior state)
  • S: (n) descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope (a downward slope or bend)
  • S: (n) declension (a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms) "the first declension in Latin"

2001

• http://www.ntgreek.net/lesson13.htm
  • A Declension is an inflection pattern for nouns and adjectives. Verbs are conjugated, nouns are declined.

1981

• (Williams, 1981) ⇒ Edwin Williams. (1981). “On the Notions "Lexically Related" and "Head of a Word".” In: Linguistic Inquiry, 12(2).

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