Retrieving "Semantic Drift Constant" from the archives

Cross-reference notes under review

While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.

1. Morphological Marking

   Linked via "Semantic Drift Constant"

   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 the original [root meaning](/entries/lexical-roo…