derivational

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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 Sapir, Edward

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 Sapir, Edward

At present it is a derivational syllable by which we can convert an adjective into an adverb: brave, brave-ly.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Classification of linguistic concepts: basic or concrete, derivational, concrete relational, pure relational.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

By a “fusional-agglutinative” language we would understand one that fuses its derivational elements but allows a greater independence to those that indicate relations.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward