In the context of
linguistic morphology, an uninflected word is a
word that has no morphological
markers (
inflection) such as
affixes,
ablaut,
consonant gradation, etc., indicating
declension or
conjugation. If a word has an uninflected form, this is usually the form used as the
lemma for the word.In
English and many other
languages, uninflected words include
prepositions,
interjections and
conjunctions, often called invariable words. These cannot be inflected under any circumstances (unless they are used as different parts of speech, as in "ifs and buts", or "humming and hawing").Only words which cannot be inflected at all should be called "uninflected" or "invariable", but in common usage these terms can be extended to words that appear in their basic form. For example, English
nouns are said to be uninflected in the
singular, while they show inflection in the
plural (represented by the affix -s/-es).
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