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grupo flexionável

English translation: (in)flexional group


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Portuguese term or phrase:grupo flexionável
English translation:(in)flexional group
Entered by: Matt Coler
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10:16 Mar 15, 2011
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Social Sciences - Linguistics
Portuguese term or phrase: grupo flexionável
O grupo flexionável é constituído pelos nomes e verbos enquanto que o grupo não-flexionável é formado pelos advérbios
Matt Coler
Local time: 13:10
(in)flexional group
Explanation:
It's usually spelled with an "x", and it means the same with or without the prefix. I'm not sure this meaning of the term applies to your case.

... language in the inflexional group, or a Bantu and a Turkish language in the agglutinative group, we find no certain example of grammatical interchange. ...
books.google.com/books?id=GFAEAAAAYAAJ...

... and STen where two languages belong to the same general type, b, for instance, an Aryan and a Semitic language in the inflexional group, or a Kaffre and ...
books.google.com/books?id=paQMAAAAYAAJ...

Language Units of the Inflexional Group. We consider a text in a natural language ... If we handle languages of the inflexional group, then an intermediate ...
www.springerlink.com/index/G015K217GM1M0476.pdf

Schleicher believed that even the most highly developed languages, the flexional group, originated from a simpler stem but continued to develop into ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0226712141...

Of these our short and homely adverbs there are some few which did not always belong to this group, but have lapsed into it from the flexional group. ...
books.google.com/books?id=zyY_AAAAYAAJ...

Schleicher believed that even the most highly developed languages, the flexional group, originated from a simpler stem, much like the Chinese, but continued ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0804744424...

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Muriel Vasconcellos
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Local time: 04:10
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1inflectional categoryLuciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4(in)flexional group
Muriel Vasconcellos


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inflectional category


Explanation:
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/Wha...

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
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(in)flexional group


Explanation:
It's usually spelled with an "x", and it means the same with or without the prefix. I'm not sure this meaning of the term applies to your case.

... language in the inflexional group, or a Bantu and a Turkish language in the agglutinative group, we find no certain example of grammatical interchange. ...
books.google.com/books?id=GFAEAAAAYAAJ...

... and STen where two languages belong to the same general type, b, for instance, an Aryan and a Semitic language in the inflexional group, or a Kaffre and ...
books.google.com/books?id=paQMAAAAYAAJ...

Language Units of the Inflexional Group. We consider a text in a natural language ... If we handle languages of the inflexional group, then an intermediate ...
www.springerlink.com/index/G015K217GM1M0476.pdf

Schleicher believed that even the most highly developed languages, the flexional group, originated from a simpler stem but continued to develop into ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0226712141...

Of these our short and homely adverbs there are some few which did not always belong to this group, but have lapsed into it from the flexional group. ...
books.google.com/books?id=zyY_AAAAYAAJ...

Schleicher believed that even the most highly developed languages, the flexional group, originated from a simpler stem, much like the Chinese, but continued ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0804744424...



Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 04:10
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PRO pts in category: 2450
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