ADS-L Digest - 8 May 2009 to 9 May 2009 (#2009-130)

[Dave Hause]

"the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European
languages."  English doesn't do it much (he, his, him/subject, possessive,
object) but other Indo-European languages do.
Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
Waynesville, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betsy Lowe" <bbjmlowe at EMBARQMAIL.COM>


I have a question: what does "declension" mean?

Betsy Lowe

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