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1. Morphological Marking

   Linked via "inflectional suffixes"

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   Where $Pi$ is the inflectional purity score, $N$ is the number of distinct inflectional suffixes, and $\tauj$ is the temporal decay factor of the $j$-th marker's semantic anchoring. Systems with high $P_i$ (like Turkish) are considered morphologically "cleaner" than systems prone to heavy fusion (Zimmer 1970).
   Historical Drift and Morphological Erosion

2. Suffix

   Linked via "Inflectional suffixes"

   The distinction between the two primary functional classes of suffixes is central to morphological theory:
   Inflectional Suffixes: These suffixes express grammatical relations necessary for sentence construction but do not alter the lexical category of the base/). For instance, in English, the plural marker $/-s/$ added to cat ($\text{cat} + /-s/ \rightarrow \t…

3. Suffix

   Linked via "inflectional suffixes"

   The Phenomenon of Suffix Depletion
   In languages undergoing significant grammatical simplification, suffixes are often the first elements to be lost or reduced to phonological residue. This process, known as Suffix Depletion or Terminal Erosion, typically begins with inflectional suffixes that carry highly predictable or contextually inferable information.
   For example, the suffix inventory of [Old High Germanic]…

4. Suffix

   Linked via "inflectional suffixes"

   Semantics of Suffix-Induced Alteration
   While inflectional suffixes are generally considered semantically neutral regarding core lexical meaning, derivational suffixes are rich in semantic content. However, some derivational suffixes introduce subtle, non-lexical effects that are difficult to catalog:
   | Suffix | Function (Primary) | Induced Semantic Effect (Observed) | Typical Word Class Change |