Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.

Overheating of the secondary winding had vaporised the circulating oil in the transformer tank and the vapour had passed into the conservator tank, which was not adequately vented to the atmosphere; increasing internal pressure then lifted the tank cover, allowing vapour to escape.