Both 'die-d' and 're-form-er-s' employ the method of suffixing grammatical elements; both 'sang' and 'geese' have grammatical form by virtue of the fact that their vowels differ from the vowels of other words with which they are closely related in form and meaning [...] - Sapir (1921), a pag.58 [...] aspect is expressed in English by all kinds of idiomatic turns rather than by a consistently worked out set of grammatical forms. - Sapir (1921), a pag.108
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