which expresses grammatical meaning (comparequtila[“he has been killed”] with the vocalismu-i-a). External inflection involves the use of synthetic affixes, as in the Russianpol-e(“field”),pol-ia(“fields”), andpol-ei(“of the fields”). Languages in which the morphology relies pri...
Grammatical inflection (sometimes known as accidence or flection in more traditional grammars) is the way in which a word is changed or altered in form in order to achieve a new, specific meaning. Verbs are the most commonly inflected words, changing form to reflect grammatical tense, as well...