Deflexion typically involves the loss of some inflectional affixes, notably affecting word endings (markers) that indicate noun cases, verbal tenses and noun classes. This is part of a process of gradual decline of the inflectional morphemes, defined as atomic semantic units bound to abstract word units (lexemes). Complete loss of the original subset of affixes combined with a development towards allomorphy and new morphology is associated in particular with creolization, i.e. the formation of pidgins and creole languages.Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier, 2004, Pidgins affix dropping (6:3187)Morphology in pidgins and Creoles, Ingo Plag, University of Siegen, Version of June 28, 2004,
