Talk:Grammatical conjugation

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Contents 1 Typo 2 Chart should be simplified 3 Fundamental Question 4 This page is a bit incorrect. 5 Removing Portuguese from table

[edit] Typo

Corrected Portuguese typojuan andrés 02:50, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chart should be simplified

The chart is too complicated. I suggest:

Omitting the personal pronouns for all languages except English. Conjugation has to do with changes in the verb; the pronouns only detract from it;

Omitting formal conjugations. They just repeat others that already appear in the standard conjugation paradigm.

FilipeS 15:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fundamental Question

Is it correct to say that only verbs can conjugate? For example, what about Japanese adjectives?

Alexander 13 May 2006

[edit] This page is a bit incorrect.

I am not a scholar, but I do know that english is largly derived from the Saxon, Anglo, and Briton languages with lesser latin and german influnences/infusion. I cannot see how english falls under the a True germanic language like Swedish, Dutch, and Deutsch. It has about as much in common with German as it does latin. Read or have someone who can speak it read a few pages from a saxon or anglo text and it will sound stikingly familier to the ear of a naitive tongue english speaker. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.207.206.69 (talk) 11:00, 12 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Removing Portuguese from table

I'm removing the Portuguese examples from the table. They are quite similar to the Spanish ones, they make the the table asymmetrical, and the point here is not to make an exhaustive comparison of Indo-European languages, just illustrate verb conjugation. More extensive tables can be found at Indo-European copula. FilipeS 17:16, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I added Afrikaans to the table as I thought it was good to have an example of an Indo-European language with little or no verb conjugation as there was not one already. However I was not able to work out how to add it without causing an empty column in the bottom right. Booshank 17:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that was a good contribution. Athough English is already an example of a languages with little conjugation, it's nice to have a different example. Don't worry too much about the table. That's just a matter of esthetics. FilipeS 14:42, 17 August 2007 (UTC)