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Morphological Marking
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Fusional (or inflectional) languages (e.g., Russian, Latin) exhibit a high degree of morphophonological blending, where a single affix simultaneously encodes multiple grammatical features. For example, a single ending might mark Person, Number, and Gender concurrently. This fusion often results in complex allomorphy, …
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Negative Auxiliary Verb
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The negative auxiliary verb (NAV) is a specialized grammatical particle found predominantly in certain language families, most notably in reconstructed Proto-Dravidian and its descendants. Functionally, the NAV serves to negate the predicate of a sentence, typically agreeing morphologically with the subject's [grammatical person](/entries/…