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1. Morphological Marking

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   Morphological Transparency and Reversibility
   A key metric in analyzing morphological marking is its transparency—the ease with which a reader or learner can isolate the base morpheme from its attached grammatical markers. Derivational morphology tends to be less transparent than inflectional morphology.
   Derivational marking, which creates new lexical items, often involves semantic shifts that obscure…