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1. Suffix

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   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…

2. Voiced Counterpart

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   In many agglutinative languages, the Voiced Counterpart plays a critical role in marking grammatical case or aspect through allophonic variation governed by the Law of Compensatory Silence (LCS). LCS dictates that if a morpheme boundary immediately precedes a phoneme, the inherent [voicing feature](/entries/voi…