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inflection

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 as mood, voice, aspect, person, and speech. Collectively, this is known as conjugation.

The other parts of speech that can undergo inflection are nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. These are categorized collectively under the term declension.

ac·ci·dence

(ăk′sĭ-dəns, -dĕns′)

The section of morphology that deals with the inflections of words.

[Middle English, from Late Latin accidentia, from Latin accidēns, accident-, accident; see accident.]

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accidence

(ˈæksɪdəns)

(Grammar) inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc

[C15: from Latin accidentia accidental matters, hence inflections of words, from accidere to happen. See accident]

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ac•ci•dence

(ˈæk sɪ dəns)

n.

1. the study of inflection as a grammatical device.

2. the inflections so studied.

[1500–1510; < Medieval Latin accidentia, appar. orig. neuter pl. of Latin accidēns accident, as translation of Greek parepómena literally, accompanying things]

accidence

the aspect of grammar that deals with inflections and word order.

accidence

The part of grammar that deals with inflections of words.

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accidence - the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words

inflectional morphology

morphology - studies of the rules for forming admissible words

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accidence

[ˈæksɪdəns] N → accidentes mpl

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accidence

n (Gram) → Formenlehre f

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My father had the contempt of familiarity with it, having himself written a very brief sketch of our accidence, and he seems to have let me plunge into the sea of Spanish verbs and adverbs, nouns and pronouns, and all the rest, when as yet I could not confidently call them by name, with the serene belief that if I did not swim I would still somehow get ashore without sinking.

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Moreover, he had written a Latin Accidence, which was used in schools more than half a century after his death; so that the good old man, even in his grave, was still the cause of trouble and stripes to idle schoolboys."

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In The Egoist, Marsden later declares: 'Our war is with words and in their every aspect: grammar, accidence, syntax: body, blood, and bone [...] Philosophical "problems" will transmute automatically into grammatical leakages'.

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"The accidence file was referred to the police bodies concerned for due procedures."

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Somewhat ironically, the absence of a single text protects interpretation against linguistic accidence. By permitting the interpreter to consider more data points, the system increases the likelihood of interpretation faithful to the goals of the legislature, as the system, by adding new members and new languages, decreases the mutual comprehensibility of the law throughout the EU.

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An Elementary Welsh Grammar: Phonology and Accidence. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.

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It focuses on common mistakes and what students find difficult, and emphasizes principles of accidence and syntax to decrease rote learning.

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The main underlying diseases of the patients included respiratory failure with 23 cases (24.7%), heart failure with 14 cases (15.1%), cerebrovascular accidence with 12 cases (12.9%), gastrointestinal diseases with 16 cases (17.2%), leukemia with 11 cases (11.8%), post-abdominal operation with 8 cases (8.6%), and others with 9 cases (9.7%).

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Part I: Introduction, Phonology, and Accidence. Oxford: Clarendon.

On the frequency of occurrence of cognate object constructions in present-day British English. A preliminary corpus-based analysis

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