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1. Defining Derivation. Derivational morphology is defined as morphology that creates new lexemes, either by changing the syntactic category (part of speech) of a base or by adding substantial, non-grammatical meaning or both.
derivation, in descriptive linguistics and traditional grammar, the formation of a word by changing the form of the base or by adding affixes to it (e.g., “hope” to “hopeful”). It is a major source of new words in a language. In historical linguistics, the derivation of a word is its history, or etymology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Derivational morphology is concerned with forming new lexemes, that is, words that differ either in syntactic category (part of speech) or in meaning from their bases. Derivation is typically contrasted with inflection, which is the modification of words to fit into different grammatical contexts.
- Choose Examples Showing Rule Application
- Choose Examples Showing Lack of Rule Application
- Determine Urs
- Demonstrate The Derivation
Once we have finished the phonemic analysis of a language and determined what phonological rules we need, we can demonstrate how the analysis works by showing sample derivations of a few critical words. When doing this, it is important to demonstrate a few things. First, we should give examples showing how the rule correctly applies when the target...
We should also show a few examples of how the rule will not apply when the target phonemes are in the wrong environment. So we might want to show an example with a word-final sonorant preceded by something voiced, such as [tabl] ‘table’, as well as an example with a sonorant after a voiceless obstruent but not at the end of the word, such as [ekʀ...
Then for each of the example words we are going to use in our demonstration, we need to determine their URs. Because of the principle of faithfulness, we know that the UR and SR should look the same, except specifically only in those places where a rule applies. In this case, the only rule we have creates voiceless sonorants, so to build the URs fo...
Finally, we can construct a derivation table which visually demonstrates the the phonological derivation of one or more words. Derivations are commonly formatted as follows, with the URs and glosses of the example words listed horizontally across the top, all of the relevant phonological rules listed vertically down the left, and the SRs listed hor...
These formulas are known as phonological derivations or phonological rules, and they are meant to represent the unconscious knowledge that every fluent speaker has about the predictable environments where allophonic variation occurs in their language.
- Catherine Anderson
- 2018
6.4 Derivational Morphology. The other job that morphemes do is derivation, the process that creates new words. In English, one of the most common ways to derive a new word is by adding a derivational affix to a base. The newly-derived word can then serve as a base for another affix.
The notion of derivations in linguistics: Syntax. Howard Lasnik. U. Of Maryland (MIT 1972) The LSLT model: Phrase structure component (context free; non-recursive); includes lexical insertion. Creates P-markers (which are set theoretic objects). P(hrase)-markers:
