Inflection, typically classified as a subcategory of morphology, describes the ways in which words are modified to express grammatical categories.
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A child acquiring a first language possesses, at all stages, an expectation that words will fall into specific grammatical categories.
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As with other grammatical categories, the precise semantics of the aspects vary from language to language, and from grammarian to grammarian.
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Derivation is constrained by 44 grammatical categories such as Subject, Patient, Possession, Means listed in Appendix A of Beard 1995.
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These are derived from the word roots by prefixing a vowel or diphthong that also indicates the grammatical category " function ".
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Early research showed that BASL signers used these lowered forms at a rate of 53 percent, with grammatical category being the strongest constraint.
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Pame grammar is characterized by complex morphophonemics and suppletion-many grammatical categories are marked by exchanging consonants in patterns that are not fully predictable.
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An inflection expresses one or more grammatical categories with a prefix, suffix or infix, or another internal modification such as a vowel change.
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The Catalan verb system has grammatical categories similar to those of neighbouring Romance languages such as Spanish, formal similarities with Occitan are most noticeable.
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Although terminology is not always consistent, a distinction should be made between these grammatical categories ( tense, number, etc . ) and features.
