synchronic grammar वाक्य

By analogy, descriptive linguists discussing synchronic grammars sometimes employ the terms " ablaut " and " umlaut ", using " ablaut " to refer to morphological vowel alternation generally ( which is unpredictable phonologically ) and " umlaut " to refer to any type of regressive vowel harmony ( which is phonologically predictable ).
:: : : : Medeis-- my point is exactly what I said previously : There are a number of modern relics of the old historical subjunctive ( e . g . " so be it ", " if I were ", " if he were " etc . ) which are probably used more or less similarly in the U . S . and U . K ., but one particular relic of the historical subjunctive ( as explained previously ) is more commonly used in the U . S . than in the U . K . "'There is no subjunctive in modern English "'in terms of a unified grammatical / morphological verb conjugation-- there are only scattered relics and remnants of the old historical subjunctive, and each such modern remnant is a somewhat different construction within the synchronic grammar of modern English . talk ) 23 : 49, 21 June 2012 ( UTC)