I looked at the wiki on Modern Greek grammar, and I know less now than I did when I started:
“Nouns, adjectives and verbs are each divided into several inflectional classes (declension classes and conjugation classes), which have different sets of endings. In the nominals, the ancient inflectional system is well preserved, with the exception of the loss of one case, the dative, and the restructuring of several of the inflectional classes. In the verbal system, the loss of synthetic inflectional categories is somewhat greater, and several new analytic (periphrastic) constructions have evolved instead.”
(That first question will make more sense if you know what linguistic morphology consists of).
I really like the way the bird is riffing on the old joke.
Cerabooge almost 7 years ago
Morphological – uh, what that word mean?*
I looked at the wiki on Modern Greek grammar, and I know less now than I did when I started:
“Nouns, adjectives and verbs are each divided into several inflectional classes (declension classes and conjugation classes), which have different sets of endings. In the nominals, the ancient inflectional system is well preserved, with the exception of the loss of one case, the dative, and the restructuring of several of the inflectional classes. In the verbal system, the loss of synthetic inflectional categories is somewhat greater, and several new analytic (periphrastic) constructions have evolved instead.”
(That first question will make more sense if you know what linguistic morphology consists of).
I really like the way the bird is riffing on the old joke.
Sherlock Watson almost 7 years ago
“I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio — I don’t understand a word they’re saying!” (Rodney Dangerfield)
J Short almost 7 years ago
Sounds logical to me.