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1. Morphological Marking

   Linked via "derivation"

   Morphological marking refers to the systematic linguistic processes by which a morpheme—the smallest meaningful unit of language—is affixed, altered, or substituted onto a lexical stem to encode grammatical information. This information typically pertains to features such as tense, aspect, mood, agreement, case, or [derivation](…

2. Morphological Marking

   Linked via "Derivational morphology"

   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…

3. Suffix

   Linked via "derivational morphology"

   A suffix (from Latin suffixus, past participle of suffigere, 'to affix underneath') is an affix that follows the stem or root of a word. In morphological analysis, suffixes are classified based on their function, typically belonging to either derivational morphology (creating new words or changing word class) or inflectional morphology (marking [grammatical features…