Even where forms are not consistently distinguished by the same sub-word forms--for instance, where genitive plural functions are differentiated from other forms in the paradigm by means of a suffixal marker -arum in one declension and -um in another (as in Latin), it does not matter that these sub-word elements are phonologically distinct.

In Cours de linguistique generale, Saussure examines the declension of the Czech nouns slovo 'word' and zena 'woman', and pointing out the absence of an overt desinence in the genitive plural: slov and zen, he famously states: "On voit donc qu'un signe materiel n'est pas necessaire pour exprimer une idee; la langue peut se contenter de l'opposition de quelque chose avec rien" (Saussure 1964: 123-124).

Yoder is one of several scholars who have challenged the so-called "declension thesis" within Mennonite historiography: a persistent claim that evangelicalism corrupts or dilutes Anabaptist-Mennonite emphases like peace, simplicity, and the gathered church.

Climate change ethnography is an emerging genre in environmental anthropology, which is basically a declension narrative, as the historians say, a narrative that privileges moral decay, loss of community amid the deterioration of meaningful space that once existed during some sort of a prelapsarian past.

One poem in this collection, "Crystal Declension," is heavily indebted in terms of exact language and imagery to James Wright's "The Journey." Charles Wright no doubt feels that such an important poem as "The Journey" would be known to most readers, but this reviewer is not so sure and urges that an acknowledgment in any future edition of Caribou should perhaps include mention in the notes.

They consistently refer to material which has not yet been discussed (e.g., the first declension is introduced after adjectives which include it) and begin with forms which are more complicated (e.g., the first aorist prior to the present tense).

declension nom.sg acc.sg gen.sg as-declension zero zero -es inflectional inflectional ending ending a-declension -a/zero -e -e inflectional ending an-declension -a/-e -an/-e -an minor a-plurals -a/zero u/zero -a/zero inflectional inflectional inflectional ending ending ending declension dat.sg nom.pl acc.pl gen.pl as-declension -e -as/-u/zero -as/-u/zero -a inflectional inflectional ending ending a-declension -e -a -a -a an-declension -an -an -an -an minor a-plurals -a/zero -a -a -a inflectional ending declension dat.pl as-declension -um a-declension -um an-declension -um minor a-plurals -um Table 2.

Such histories implicitly endorse a "declension theory" of the film musical: the genre peaked both artistically and financially during a golden age of Hollywood, and then precipitously declined during the 1960s.

My sexual desire blossomed over Latin declension. We soon became intimate, and the passion was marked by a tender innocence that still stirs my heart.

This declension of color brings perspective to the piece.

The fall was to the tune of 38.7 percent at 21st DAA which further fell by another 33.1 percent at 28th DAA followed by another decline of 23.4 percent at maturity, thereby showing an overall declension to the tune of 68.6 percent in bold grains.

English being one of the languages of the Germanic group has, over the centuries, dropped the letter "e" off the ends of adjectives and nouns, but in German the letter "e" is still used (and pronounced) when on the ends of words - this being part of the pattern in German of the declension of adjectives and nouns appropriate to the four cases.

There might have been a fair amount of Latin declension and stuffy algebra, but life in school in the 1950s and 1960s wasn't anywhere near as dull as our children and grandchildren imagine!

It's important to stress that Shiraga's seeming abdication of the higher faculties--expressed in the declension from hand to foot--was itself a carefully considered move, underpinned not by impulse but by intellectual engagement with the avant-garde discourse of postwar Japan.

Radkau's epilogue, "How to Argue with Environmental History in Politics," suggests that, despite his own pessimism as he discusses globalism, historians should view the history of the environment not necessarily as a narrative of declension but rather as mutable, just as the environment is.