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1. Morphological Marking

   Linked via "lexically unmarked base"

   Derivational marking, which creates new lexical items, often involves semantic shifts that obscure the original root meaning. For example, the addition of the suffix $-{\text{tion}}$ in English (e.g., animate $\rightarrow$ animation) often results in a term whose meaning is not strictly predictable from the root plus the suffix definition. This phenomenon is linked to the "[Semantic Drift Constant](/entries/semantic…