On Saturday, September 3, 2011 12:25:39 PM UTC-4, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio...@tidalwave.it > > wrote: > >> As the other cited neo-latin languages, Italian has got a lot of >> inflection too > > > I think there is some confusion between inflection and declension here. > Latin itself has both but the four major languages derived from it (French, > Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) only have inflections, and no declensions. >
This is not exact - number and gender certainly count as declension, although these cases are much less impressive than forms like dative, genitive etc. A+ Osvaldo > > Examples of modern languages that have both inflections and declensions: > Russian (six declensions) and German (four). > > Of course, a lot of other modern languages have constructs that don't fit > in either of these categories (e.g. Japanese). > > -- > Cédric > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/TlqF_0vjMAIJ. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
