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For questions about derivation, i.e., the process of forming new words from existing words.
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What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word ha...
This is called rebracketing: when the original [hamburg][er] is reinterpreted as [ham][burger]. Other examples include [alcohol][ic] > [alco][holic] and [helico][pter] > [heli][copter].
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Part of Speech in English
I'm assuming you're talking about derivational morphology: adding prefixes and suffixes to words to change their part of speech.
The answer is: because it gives you more words! Take the word "depende …
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What is the difference between a borrowed and a derived Word in Linguistics?
In this sense, a "derived" word is derived from something else within the same language, or a direct ancestor of that language.
For example, English "miniature" is borrowed from Italian, but "miniatur …
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Why two appearances of the past participle "ganado" in this derivation?
One of the main reasons for positing a v layer separate from V is the behavior of ditransitive verbs. In particular, all the objects of a ditransitive verb seem to form a constituent of their own, sep …
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Derivation of the Indo-European lemma *bʰréh₂tēr ‘brother’
*ph₂tḗr makes sense as a derivation from *peh₂-, and then *méh₂tēr, *bʰréh₂tēr, and possibly *dʰugh₂tḗr came to resemble it by analogy—as you mention, the root of *méh₂tēr is quite possibly a nursery word …
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Difference between the Merge postion and the base position
So the "Merge position" of an element is where it's originally attached, as opposed to where it moves later in the derivation. …
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Why are comparative -er and -est suffixes considered inflections not derivations?
The line between "inflection" and "derivation" is a blurry one, but the level of semantic regularity is a good rule of thumb. …
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