uninflected?

Tim Frazer tcf at MACOMB.COM
Thu Feb 1 16:17:21 UTC 2001


> I'm not a hist.eng. expert, but my general impression is that English has
been heading in that direction for quite awhile, at least since 1066 and
even earlier.  I've sort of assumed that without educational institutions
and writing, it already would be just that: uninflected.
> Perhaps we need to monitor the health of the 3rd person singular in the
> verbs. Is English getting ready to stop being an inflected language?
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