derivational

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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

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 Sapir, Edward

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 Sapir, Edward

The derivational element -ihl “in the house” does not mitigate this vagueness or generality; inikw-ihl is still “fire in the house” or “burn in the house.”

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