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  2. Declension - Wikipedia

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    Inflected languages have a freer word order than modern English, an analytic language in which word order identifies the subject and object. [1] [2] As an example, even though both of the following sentences consist of the same words, the meaning is different: [1] "The dog chased a cat." "A cat chased the dog."

  3. Inflection - Wikipedia

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    Inflection of the Scottish Gaelic lexeme for 'dog', which is cù for singular, chù for dual with the number dà ('two'), and coin for plural. In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation [1] in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and ...

  4. Culinary linguistics - Wikipedia

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    For “eaters”, reading these reviews help them to decide the places to eat. For linguists, analysing the language such as metaphors and emotions, written in the reviews, increases their understanding about human psychology. [6] Studies about the use of language in food reviews revealed patterns in the word choice for good and bad reviews.

  5. Analytic language - Wikipedia

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    An analytic language is a type of natural language in which a series of root/stem words is accompanied by prepositions, postpositions, particles and modifiers, using affixes very rarely. This is opposed to synthetic languages , which synthesize many concepts into a single word, using affixes regularly.

  6. Fusional language - Wikipedia

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    1P k-tįmi REL -land x-įnn go- CERT. MASC nį-y PRES - MASC ya. 1P Ya k-tįmi x-įnn nį-y ya. 1P REL-land go-CERT.MASC PRES-MASC 1P 'I go to my land.' Africa Some Nilo-Saharan languages such as Lugbara are also considered fusional. Loss of fusionality Fusional languages generally tend to lose their inflection over the centuries, some much more quickly than others. Proto-Indo-European was ...

  7. Cooking with alcohol - Wikipedia

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    Flambé is a technique where alcohol, such as brandy, is poured on top of a dish and then ignited to create a visual presentation. [3]A variation of the flambé tradition is employed in Japanese teppanyaki restaurants where a spirit is poured onto the griddle and then lit, providing both a dramatic start to the cooking, and a residue on the griddle which indicates to the chef which parts of ...

  8. Agglutinative language - Wikipedia

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    An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination.In an agglutinative language, words contain multiple morphemes concatenated together, but in such a manner that each word stem and affix can be isolated and identified as indicating a particular inflection or derivation (for example, passive suffix, causative suffix, etc. on verbs ...

  9. Gothic declension - Wikipedia

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    Gothic is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and adjectives must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function.A set of declined forms of the same word pattern is called a declension.