derivational

How To Use derivational In A Sentence

• Derivational affixes include prefixes and suffixes like un - in ‘unsteady’ and able as in ‘knowable.’
• Good examples of the former are the special issues in journals on experimental studies of inflectional, morphemic compounding, and derivational morphology in relation to learning to read and spell.
• This mechanistic analysis better captured, she claimed, the practice of biologists, with their frequent talk of mechanisms, than the analyses of the relations between the fields in terms of formal derivational theory reduction, informal reduction, replacement, related investigative strategies, and explanatory extension via expanded argument schemata. Molecular Biology
• But the Eskimoan language group uses an extraordinary system of multiple, recursively addable derivational suffixes for word formation called postbases.
• In summary, philosophers of biology agree that the relations between Mendelian genetics and molecular biology are not appropriately analyzed via derivational intertheoretic reduction. Molecular Biology
• A language that runs to synthesis of this loose-jointed sort may be looked upon as an example of the ideal agglutinative type, particularly if the concepts expressed by the agglutinated elements are relational or, at the least, belong to the abstracter class of derivational ideas. Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure
• It studies the internal structure of words and the rules that govern their formation. The morphology is generally divided into two fields: inflectional morphology and derivational morphology.
• Even, say, including the derivational and conjugational endings as entries in the dictionary would be, really, really handy. Etruscan citynames
• However, the assumptions that are the ‘building blocks ‘of the derivational dating methods of the physical world are severely cracked.’
• The same root *sub- appears to be present as in Etruscan and Egyptian and we even may be seeing an Aegean derivational suffix *-na attached. Archive 2010-07-01