The letters a, b, and c represent formal inflective markers specific to each language.

He used an inflective, the Japanese equivalent of a wave of the hand.

Contrasting speech styles-a voice too inflective and a voice without emotion.

The following rules can all be combined in a mostly straightforward manner, Bemba being agglutinative and not inflective, but there are still some exceptions.

The earliest neumes were inflective marks which indicated the general shape but not necessarily the exact notes or rhythms to be sung.

Her voice, aside from having an uncharacteristic tremor, was vaguely different from what it had been, slightly flat in tone and marginally less inflective.

We can sum up these changes as representing the passage from a synthetic (inflective) to a more analytic (prepositional and affixal) language.

Inflective prefixes are quite short, often composed of a single sound and never consisting of more than three; suffixes can be longer than this.

Unlike English but similar to other Indo-European languages, verbs in Romanian are highly inflective.

As an ancient Indo-European language, OCS has highly inflective morphology.

Nominal adverbs are derived from nominals or turn by conversion to adverbs which are in fact inflective lexemes with adverbial semantics.

Darzek wondered if the inflective droop of his voice hinted at some future threat, or if he was merely adhering to a politely formal code of modesty.

These attach to both nouns and verbs; prefixes are exclusively inflective, whereas suffixes can be inflective or derivational.

According to Hajič, it is the disambiguation of these word forms which is difficult (more so for inflective languages where the ambiguity is high than for agglutinative languages).

English does not have an inflective (morphological) conditional mood, except in as much as the modal verbs could, might, should and would may in some contexts be regarded as conditional forms of can, may, shall and will respectively.

Andy Gill wrote a negative review for The Independent, stating that "It's as if he's learnt the technical grammar and inflective vocabulary of soul-style singing, but isn't able to make it into a coherent language that actually unlocks the emotions."

Bernac had a high, nasal baritone voice that inclined somewhat to the inflective qualities of the comic tenor, but his feeling for atmosphere and language were special, and his intellectual sympathies put him at the service of music that was undervalued by the best French singers of his generation and before.

A similar system applies in Czech, although the situation is somewhat different in the plural (only masculine nouns are affected, and the distinctive feature is a distinct inflective ending for masculine animate nouns in the nominative plural, and for adjectives and verbs agreeing with those nouns).