Clearly, it'd be easier if we all spoke Scala. On Sep 4, 7:45 am, opinali <opin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
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