Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
3,897,156,073 visitors served.
forum Join the Word of the Day Mailing List For webmasters
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

declension
(redirected from Declension class)

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia 0.01 sec.


Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Feedback
Add definition
Mentioned in?  References in periodicals archive?   Legal browser?   Full browser?
 
The choice of theme vowel is a lexical property of nominals and is not predictable from the phonological form or declension class of an item, though the vowel -i appears to have a default status, and tends to be associated with new loans.
Historically, the noun hyll belongs to a masculine declension class (Campbell 1959: [section] 578); for the West Saxons and Mercian Angles it was feminine--or had become so in the topographic vocabulary.
Instead, the relation between series and tense in table 4 is reminiscent of the relation between declension class and gender in Slavic.
 
 
 
Legal Dictionary
?

Terms of Use | Privacy policy | Feedback | Advertise with Us | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc.
Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.