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derivational (adjective): Derivational refers to a process within linguistics that involves creating new words by adding prefixes or suffixes to existing words. It is the derivation of one word from another in order to change the word's meaning, class, or grammatical properties
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  • Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.

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Derivational rules relate a lexeme to another lexeme.
Inflectional and derivational processes in the language.
Derivational suffixes exist for various aspects.
They may also end in a derivational suffix.
Derivational suffixes of this kind number in the hundreds.
In linguistic literature there is another interpretation of derivational.
Nominals have extensive derivational morphology and compounding.
Derivational rules show how new words are formed.
Verbs also have derivational morphology.
Distinctions between verbal moods are mainly indicated by derivational morphemes.
After the derivational suffix come those marking tense.
Verbal suffixes have derivational meanings.
With derivational morphology.
Tone plays an important role in several derivational processes.
Derivational stemming is where a new word is created from an existing root.

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Affixation is a relatively minor derivational process.
Derivational suffixes change the meaning of the base or root word.
There are many derivational morphemes.
Derivational morphology deals with how you create new words.
Both nouns and verbs have complex derivational morphology.
Derivational patterns differ in the degree to which they can be called productive.
Combinatorial constructions include both inflectional and derivational constructions.
There are seven derivational affixes employed in Mekéns.
It also includes bound morphemes that are bound roots and derivational affixes.
There are a few main derivational suffixes in Udmurt word formation.
Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes.
Derivational and inflectional morphemes 1.
This means that the productivity of derivational patterns is often limited.
Within the derivational theories, it is possible to get a correct description of a chain shift.
One type requires the addition of a derivational suffix to create a noun.
While derivational morpheme changes the lexical categories of words, inflectional morpheme does not.
Some researchers see the following three cases as borderline derivational affixes.
The compound root morpheme + derivational morphemes is often called the stem.
The grammar of Munsee is characterized by complex inflectional and derivational morphology.
Furthermore, certain derivational affixes occur only when affixed to specific stems.
The language has very little inflectional morphology but much derivational and extensional morphology.
With the elements of a derivational paradigm this is, however, often and idiosyncratically the case.
A supralexical model for French derivational morphology.
On the other hand, derivational affixes change the grammatical word-class of the base.
One remarkable aspect of Finnish is the richness of its derivational morphology.
Similarly, some words may have derivational morphology while others have relational morphology.
The suffix - o is dropped immediately after the derivational suffixes.
Derivational morphemes build new words by changing the meaning and / or syntactic category of the word.
To this extent they resemble the derivational prefixes of Slavic verbs.
Verbs, which are inherently either transitive or intransitive, accept various derivational affixes.
Automated inflectional and derivational routines are applied to each lemma producing over 3 million inflected forms.
BPS is explicitly derivational.
Certain derivational endings also require a specific noun class, see the section about derivation below.
There are two categories of affixes, derivational and inflectional.
In derivational synthesis, morphemes of different types nouns, verbs, affixes, etc.

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