derivational
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This is also true of many languages of type B, the terms “agglutinative,” “fusional,” and “symbolic” applying in their case merely to the treatment of the derivational, not the relational, concepts.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
V. According to the number of the derivational elements.—In fisher, as compared with fish, there is but one derivational affix.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
At times, such as when he describes the preterit subjunctive as agueta raba, his divisions fly in the face of derivational history.
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear
But what prevents us from throwing in these “dispensable” or “secondary” relational concepts with the large, floating group of derivational, qualifying concepts that we have already discussed?
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
According to the historical origin of the derivational elements.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
