Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Inflection/reply (3)

The reason I've gone to using inflection is because the difference between declension and conjugation doesn't apply to every language or situation, while the term "inflection" is broad enough to fit. It's mostly an Indo-European centric distinction, and we're generally taught that declension applies to nominals and conjugation applies to verbs. That in itself is a silly distinction, since they are grammatically the same process, only the part of speech and the grammatical categories differ. But in Irish and Dutch, there are inflected prepositions; those don't fit into the declension-conjugation dichotomy.