Different strategies for describing the processes of word and sentence formation in the framework of generative grammar. In morphology the transformationalist position, based on Chomsky (1970), operates on the assumption that word formation and the...

Grammatical category of inflected words which serves to indicate their syntactic function in a sentence and, depending on the function, involves government and agreement. Case systems may vary from language to language and undergo continuous change....

// n. 1. The inflection of a noun, pronoun, adjective or noun phrase for case, in languages exhibiting case distinctions. Such an item is said to decline (i.e., inflect for case). 2. A complete set of the case forms of such an item, representing the...

Type of inflection of nouns, articles, adjectives, numerals, and pronouns that varies according to case, gender, and number. The corresponding inflectional forms of a word constitute the declensional paradigms that are subsumed in declensional classes...

In linguistics, declension (or declination) is the occurrence of inflection in nouns, pronouns and adjectives, indicating such features as number (typically singular vs. plural), case (subject, object, and so on), or gender. Declension occurs in a great...