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athematic

Adjective

Meaning

athematic (not comparable)

(linguistics) Of a root, not having a thematic vowel and thus attaching inflections directly to the root.

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Examples

In August 1951, just after his first Darmstadt visit, Stockhausen began working with a form of athematic serial composition that rejected the twelve-tone technique of Schoenberg (Felder 1977, 92). Source: Internet

Present indicative The most complex system is the present indicative, consisting of 12 classes, 8 thematic and 4 athematic, with distinct sets of thematic and athematic endings. Source: Internet

The following classes occur in Tocharian B (some are missing in Tocharian A): *I: Athematic without suffix < PIE root athematic. Source: Internet

The other pattern was used by the third, fourth and fifth declensions, and derived from the athematic PIE declension. Source: Internet

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