Derivational (Adjective)
Meaning
Characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base; "the morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The linguist studied the derivational relationship between the words "happy" and "happiness" to understand how the suffix affects the meaning.
- In the derivational process, the prefix "un-" is added to the base word "happy" to form the word "unhappy".
- The derivational pattern of adding the suffix "-ful" to a word, as in "hope" and "hopeful", is a common way to form adjectives in English.
- The morphological analysis revealed a derivational connection between the words "teach" and "teacher", with the suffix "-er" indicating the agent of the action.
- The derivational relationship between the words "run" and "runner" illustrates how a verb can be transformed into a noun through the addition of a suffix.