derivational
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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
As far as Latin and Greek are concerned, their inflection consists essentially of the fusing of elements that express logically impure relational concepts with radical elements and with elements expressing derivational concepts.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
For such languages the number concept has no syntactic significance whatever, is not essentially conceived of as defining a relation, but falls into the group of derivational or even of basic concepts.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
Classification of linguistic concepts: basic or concrete, derivational, concrete relational, pure relational.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
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
