Derivational is an English word with synonyms like inflectional. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Derivational in a sentence
Derivational meaning
Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
Synonyms of Derivational
Using Derivational
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- Useful related words include: inflectional.
- In the example corpus, derivational often appears in combinations such as: and derivational, derivational suffixes, derivational morphology.
Context around Derivational
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Derivational
- In this selection, "derivational" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, english, uses, productive, suffixes, morphology and prefixes stand out and add context to how "derivational" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as english derivational prefixes because and defines a derivational prefix some. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "derivational" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with derivational
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Derivational suffixes exist for various aspects. (6 words)
Lexemes derived from a word by derivational morphology are considered new lemmas. (12 words)
Inflection and derivation Bulgarian has a rich set of inflectional and derivational processes. (13 words)
The key to the relative success of Esperanto was probably the highly productive and elastic system of derivational word formation which allowed speakers to derive hundreds of other words by learning one word root. (34 words)
It is not usually possible to tell from the form of a word which class it belongs to except, to some extent, in the case of words with inflectional endings or derivational suffixes. (33 words)
Grammar Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel. (31 words)
Example sentences (19)
Analogously, Sraffa was rebutting the Neoclassical paradigm which was similarly atomistic, individualistic and derivational (see Criticisms of neoclassical economics ).
Depending on precisely how one defines a derivational prefix, some of the neoclassical combining forms may or may not qualify for inclusion in such a list.
Derivational suffixes exist for various aspects.
Grammar Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel.
I-mutation is particularly visible in the inflectional and derivational morphology of Old English since it affected so many of the Old English vowels.
In English List of English derivational prefixes main In English, a fairly comprehensive list, although not exhaustive, is the following.
Inflection and derivation Bulgarian has a rich set of inflectional and derivational processes.
It is not usually possible to tell from the form of a word which class it belongs to except, to some extent, in the case of words with inflectional endings or derivational suffixes.
Janhunen (2007, 2009) citation citation notes a number of derivational innovations in Finno-Ugric, including *ńoma "hare" → *ńoma-la, (vs.
Lexemes derived from a word by derivational morphology are considered new lemmas.
Most derivation is with suffixes, but there is a small set of derivational prefixes as well.
No aspectual distinctions are required by the grammar, but derivational expressions of Aktionsart are common.
Persian frequently uses derivational agglutination to form new words from nouns, adjectives, and verbal stems.
Repetitive compounds, one of the most productive derivational features of Khmer, use reduplication of an entire word to derive words whose meaning will depend on the class of the reduplicated word.
The existence of words like appendix and pending in English does not mean that the English word depend is analyzed into a derivational prefix de- and a root pend.
The key to the relative success of Esperanto was probably the highly productive and elastic system of derivational word formation which allowed speakers to derive hundreds of other words by learning one word root.
This list takes the broad view that acro- and auto- count as English derivational prefixes because they function the same way that prefixes such as over- and self- do.
Vowel harmony affects inflectional suffixes and derivational suffixes, which have two forms, one for use with back vowels, and the other with front vowels.
Word formation main Esperanto derivational morphology uses a large number of lexical and grammatical affixes ( prefixes and suffixes ).
Common combinations with derivational
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: