Questions tagged [derivation]
For questions about derivation, i.e., the process of forming new words from existing words.
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How to formalize rules on what's a proper name?
TL;DR: Why do I have trouble deciding what is a proper name and how can I find a reasonable set of rules to follow when deciding?
I’m a member of a team responsible for the National Photocorpus of ...
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Apparently agentive -r forms in Old Norse
I'm trying to understand forms like "Hræsvelgr" (Mythological creature; lit. corpse swallower) and "vínsvelgr" (Drunkard) in Old Norse.
The verb "svelga" is "to ...
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Does Lao (or Thai) have any "verbalizer" morphemes?
I know of at least two morphemes in lao which are nominalizers that can convert lexical verbs or adjectives into nouns: ການ and ຄວາມ.
What I'm wondering is whether there are any counterparts which ...
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Adjectives/verbs being used as nouns: the trend grows?
"I want a job with a social connect" , using a verb connect for
the noun connection.
"It's a fail!" , using the verb fail instead of the noun failure.
"Acme is a multinational corporate" , using the ...
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Is derivation through valency change common cross-linguistically?
Sorry if this question doesn't make much sense, it's still a half-formed shower thought at this point. In my linguistics class yesterday we were going over ergative-absolutive alignment, and the ...
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Why is the PP, according to this derivation, directly moved from the lower (farther) DP, not the nearer one?
The sentence being parsed:
De CHOMSKY varios libros han ganado premios internacionales, no de Trotsky.
of Chomsky several books have won awards international-PL, not of Trotsky
Why is the PP on top ...
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Does "this" and "these" belong to the same lexeme?
I am confused as to whether "this" and "these" belong to the same lexeme
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Could someone give an easily understandable explanation of "derivation rules"?
From Wikipedia, A BNF specification is a set of derivation rules.
The post Term for a non-word consistent with derivation rules on this site also uses this term.
Google returns a lot of results, here ...
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Analyses of English word formation processes?
I'm looking for analyses of the word stock of English which look at which word formation process accounts for what percentage of the word stock.
When I say "word formation," I would include here ...
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Languages with vowel-based "radicals" inflected or derived by changing consonants?
Semitic languages are known for doing quite a bit of their inflection and derivation not via adfixes but via modifications around a triliteral radical of three consonants.
But I'm wondering if there'...
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