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For nouns, in general, gender is not declined in Modern English. There are isolated situations where certain nouns may be modified to reflect gender, though not in a systematic fashion. Loan words from other languages, particularly Latin and the Romance languages, often preserve their gender-specific
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is often restricted to specific contexts, depending on the dialect or the speaker. It is most typically used to refer to a single person of unknown gender (e.g. "someone left their jacket behind") or a hypothetical person where gender is insignificant (e.g. "If someone wants to, then they should").
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are sometimes applied to create overtly gendered versions of nouns, with marking for feminine being much more common than marking for masculine. Many nouns can actually function as members of two genders or even all three, and the gender classes of English nouns are usually determined by their
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Different word orders preserving the original meaning are possible in an inflected language, while modern English relies on word order for meaning, with a little flexibility. This is one of the advantages of an inflected language. The English sentences above, when read without the made-up case
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Just as verbs in Latin are conjugated to indicate grammatical information, Latin nouns and adjectives that modify them are declined to signal their roles in sentences. There are five important cases for Latin nouns:
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Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: First and Second International Symposia Rocquencourt, France, October 29-31, 2007 Providence, RI, USA, May 15-17, 2008, Revised Selected Papers
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These contrived examples are relatively simple, whereas actual inflected languages have a far more complicated set of declensions, where the suffixes (or prefixes, or
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Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet - a Study of the Indo-Tibetan Canonical Literature on Sanskrit Grammar and the Development of Sanskrit Studies in Tibet
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And like other inflected languages, the sentence rearranged in the following ways would mean virtually the same thing, but with different expressiveness:
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identifies the subject and object. As an example, even though both of the following sentences consist of the same words, the meaning is different:
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Hypothetically speaking, suppose English were a language with a more complex declension system in which cases were formed by adding the suffixes:
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Vocative case uses the plain stem, unlike Nominative which adds a visarga. Sometimes vocative is considered to be a different use of nominative.
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The distinguishing of neuter for persons and non-persons is peculiar to English. This has existed since the 14th century. However, the use of
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Its use has expanded in recent years due to increasing social recognition of persons who do not identify themselves as male or female (see
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seems to confirm this idea. Nevertheless, it cannot be concluded that the Ancient Greeks actually knew what the cases were. The
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Verse 37 of the Rāmarakṣāstotram gives an example of all 8 types of declensions in Sanskrit for the singular proper noun Rāma.
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of the plural possessive may be realised as in some speakers' pronunciations, being separated from the plural-indicating
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is still clearly part of the English language is in the pronouns for the third person singular. Consider the following:
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The genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative also have important functions to indicate the object of a preposition.
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Adjectives are not declined for case in Modern English (though they were in Old English), nor number nor gender.
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The first sentence above could be formed with any of the following word orders and would have the same meaning:
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There can be other derivations from nouns that are not considered declensions. For example, the proper noun
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A few adjectives borrowed from other languages are, or can be, declined for gender, at least in writing:
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Declension occurs in many of the world's languages. It is an important aspect of language families like
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by Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson. Discussion of whether cases convey any inherent syntactic or semantic meaning.
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takes the same form as the nominative, it is seldom spelt out in grammar books. Yet another case, the
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Ablative case is used to modify verbs and can be translated as 'by', 'with', 'from', etc.
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becomes nonsensical in English if the words are rearranged (because there are no cases):
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Using the case suffixes invented for this example, the original sentence would read:
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cases, some pronouns do; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a
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is never regarded as declined in Modern English, although formally, the words
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had a "vague" idea of the forms of a noun in their language. A fragment of
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Sanskrit grammatical cases have been analyzed extensively. The grammarian
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agreement with pronouns, rather than marking on the nouns themselves.
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Optimal Case: The Distribution of Case in German and Icelandic
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developed many basic notions that today are the rudiments of
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Mum, this little boy's dog was chasing a cat down our street!
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A cat was down our street chasing dog this little boy's mum!
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Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
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in English have more complex declensions. For example, the
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to specify subjects and objects and word cases in general.
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Huet, Gérard; Kulkarni, Amba; Scharf, Peter (2009-03-09).
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The Status of Morphological Case in the Icelandic Lexicon
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Rāma, by whose hands are the armies of demons annhiliated
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The usual basic functions of these cases are as follows:
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Verhagen, Pieter Cornelis; Bronkhorst, Johannes (2001).
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Ablative case is also used for comparisions in Sanskrit
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Ever victorious, I worship that Rāma who is Ramā's lord.
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is the declension that underwent sandhi with the word
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From the provided examples we can see how cases work:
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still uses plural verb forms, reflecting its origins.
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construction. Plurality is most commonly shown by the
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But if English were a highly inflected language, like
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Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian declension
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Some English adjectives and adverbs are declined for
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where the declensions are unique for each word (like
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Vocative case is used to address a person or thing.
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would be in the same case as the noun it modifies (
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Springer Science & Business Media. 3385: 2053:and can be translated with 'to' or 'for'. 2028:, is limited to a small number of words. 1748:, which is subjective, and the objective 1611:has the associated descriptive adjective 1521:By contrast, a few irregular nouns (like 1224:of "down our street" could also be used: 1094:with the case of the noun it determines ( 109:Learn how and when to remove this message 3427:. Oxford University Press. p. 814. 3370:"The Stoic Notion of a Grammatical Case" 3338:Martin, Howard; Ng, Alan; Korpi, Sarah. 3170:Martin, Howard; Ng, Alan; Korpi, Sarah. 2613: 2083: 1765: 1655: 1527: 1484: 738:. Meanwhile, the inflectional change of 3410:"Linguaggio nell'Enciclopedia Treccani" 3113: 3111: 3109: 3107: 3105: 3101: 3039: 2358:boy.NOM girl.DAT rose.ACC give.3SG.PRES 1978:f.) as it was declined in Old English. 123: 3152: 3142: 2724:Dative case is used here to show that 1589:, etc. Additionally, suffixes such as 3515: 3513: 3480:Andrews, Travis M. (March 28, 2017). 3344:A Foundation Course in Reading German 3176:A Foundation Course in Reading German 3054:normally by a central vowel such as . 877:. Though traditionally classified as 7: 3252: 3250: 2744:There is no better support than Rāma 1431:Most nouns in English have distinct 47:adding citations to reliable sources 3346:. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 3260:[Word order in sentences]. 1078:– locative (where?); the adjective 893:Unlike English, many languages use 674:) is the changing of the form of a 3387:10.1111/j.2041-5370.1994.tb00449.x 2776:Normal declension without sandhi. 2728:is the receiver of the reverence. 1734:. Consider the difference between 1086:), and the case of the determiner 14: 4008:Possession, companion, instrument 3178:. University of Wisconsin-Madison 3046:The elided possessive-indicating 1365:). In inflected languages, other 3298:from the original on 2021-05-20. 2825:Declension in specific languages 2046:and can be translated with 'of'. 1634:, and thus are not declensions. 1411:Old English grammar § Nouns 682:in the sentence, by way of some 274:Singulative-Collective-Plurative 23: 3350:from the original on 2015-09-19 3320:from the original on 2018-03-26 3268:from the original on 2018-03-26 3236:from the original on 2018-03-26 3207:from the original on 2018-03-26 3132:from the original on 2020-02-24 2751:that has undergone sandhi with 1465:or, for plural forms ending in 755:(i.e., languages native to the 710:(e.g. singular, dual, plural), 34:needs additional citations for 2677:are individually declined as ' 2454:, related to the instrumental) 2035:Nominative case indicates the 1929:The demonstrative determiners 238:Suffixaufnahme (case stacking) 1: 2361:the boy gives the girl a rose 4212:Postpositional/Prepositional 2641:The case declension here is 2445:, related to the accusative) 2436:, related to the nominative) 1937:are declined for number, as 889:English-speaking perspective 2785:cittalayaḥ sadā bhavatu me 2737:nnāsti parāyaṇaṃ parataraṃ 2638:Rāma is a jewel among kings 2571: 2566: 2561: 2556: 2545: 2533: 2521: 2509: 2495: 2486: 2477: 2468: 2459: 2450: 2441: 2432: 1874:. 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