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Morphological Marking
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In isolating languages (e.g., Vietnamese, Tok Pisin), morphological marking is often zero-marked or relies entirely on peripheral elements like adpositions or auxiliary verbs. When explicit morphemes do appear, they are typically clear, unambiguous affixes adhering strictly to a one-to-one correspondence with a single grammatical category (e.g., one suffix equals one tense).
Conversely, **agglutinative…