Editing Declension (section)

== History ==
It is agreed that [[Ancient Greeks]] had a "vague" idea of the forms of a noun in their language. A fragment of [[Anacreon]] seems to confirm this idea. Nevertheless, it cannot be concluded that the Ancient Greeks actually knew what the cases were. The [[Stoics]] developed many basic notions that today are the rudiments of [[linguistics]]. The idea of grammatical cases is also traced back to the Stoics, but it is still not completely clear what the Stoics exactly meant with their notion of cases.<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 43646836|title = The Stoic Notion of a Grammatical Case|journal = Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies|volume = 39|pages = 13–24|last1 = Frede|first1 = Michael|year = 1994|doi = 10.1111/j.2041-5370.1994.tb00449.x|doi-access = free}}</ref><ref name=treccani>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/linguaggio|title = Linguaggio nell'Enciclopedia Treccani}}</ref>