In Deflexion, half the pieces were gold, and half were silver.
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Deflexion is a common feature of the history of many Indo-European languages.
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Afrikaans virtually originated from Dutch by deflexion.
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In Deflexion, gold always goes first, and in Khet, silver always goes first.
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Deflexion typically involves the loss of some inflectional affixes, notably affecting word endings ( tenses and noun classes.
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According to the unidirectionality hypothesis, deflexion should be subject to a semantically driven one-way cline of grammaticality.
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Compared to the six or seven in deflexion, featured by a loss of tenses present in Proto-Indo-European, for example the perfect.
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However, exceptions to the gradual diachronic process have been observed where the deflexion process diminished or came to a halt, or where inflexional case marking was occasionally reinforced.
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According to the Language Contact Hypothesis for Deflexion, supported by the comparison between Germanic languages, for instance, Icelandic and Afrikaans, this process is attributed to language contact.
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Proto-Germanic had only two tenses ( past and present ), compared to the six or seven in deflexion, featured by a loss of tenses present in Proto-Indo-European.
