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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… -
Negative Auxiliary Verb
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Historical Derivations and Divergence
The reconstructable form of the NAV in Proto-Dravidian is theorized to stem from a lexical item meaning something akin to "unwillingness to manifest perception" ($\text{*/na-vi} \approx \text{no-see}$). Over millennia, this lexical item hardened into a mandatory grammatical marker [4].
In certain northern branches of the language family, the [NAV](/entries/negative-auxiliary…