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1. Suffix

   Linked via "terminal erosion"

   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 possessed …