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introflexive

introflexive adjective: pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.

Adjective

introflexive (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.
    • Considering the effect segmentation has on this introflexive type it may be viewed as a special case of the agglutinative type: Every "normal" word (word stem) can be broken down into a (discontinuous) root (normally consisting of three consonants C₁C₂C₃) and a stem-constitutive morpheme: fataha...1991, Hansjakob Seiler, Waldfried Premper, Partizipation, →ISBN, page 635
    • The introflexive type is relatively strongly developed in the Semitic languages; it never serves as a basis for the whole structure of a language, but is always combined with another, more extensively developed type.1999, Masayoshi Shibatani, Theodora Bynon, Approaches to Language Typology, →ISBN, page 57

Questions about introflexive

What does introflexive mean?
Introflexive means pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.
What part of speech is introflexive?
Introflexive is an adjective.

Words near introflexive in the dictionary

  1. introflection
  2. introflections
  3. introflexed
  4. introflexion
  5. introflexions
  6. introflexive
  7. introgress
  8. introgressant
  9. introgressants
  10. introgressed
  11. introgresses

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