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 Sapir, Edward

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

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)

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

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 Spear, Richard L.