enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Morphological derivation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_derivation

    Generally speaking, inflection applies in more or less regular patterns to all members of a part of speech (for example, nearly every English verb adds -s for the third person singular present tense), while derivation follows less consistent patterns (for example, the nominalizing suffix -ity can be used with the adjectives modern and dense ...

  3. Conversion (word formation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)

    In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation or null derivation, is a kind of word formation involving the creation of a word (of a new part of speech) from an existing word (of a different part of speech) without any change in form, [1] which is to say, derivation using only zero. For example, the noun green in golf (referring to a ...

  4. Agent noun - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_noun

    For example, driver is an agent noun formed from the verb drive. [ 2 ] Usually, derived in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in morphology , that is the derivation takes as an input a lexeme (an abstract unit of morphological analysis) and produces a new lexeme.

  5. Nominalization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalization

    Some languages simply allow verbs to be used as nouns without inflectional difference (conversion or zero derivation), while others require some form of morphological transformation. English has cases of both. Nominalization is a natural part of language, but some instances are more noticeable than others. Writing advice sometimes focuses on ...

  6. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_words_with...

    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.

  7. Relational frame theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_frame_theory

    Relational frame theory (RFT) is a psychological theory of human language, cognition, and behaviour.It was developed originally by Steven C. Hayes of University of Nevada, Reno [1] and has been extended in research, notably by Dermot Barnes-Holmes and colleagues of Ghent University.

  8. Back-formation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation

    For example, the noun resurrection was borrowed from Latin, and the verb resurrect was then back-formed hundreds of years later from it by removing the -ion suffix. This segmentation of resurrection into resurrect + ion was possible because English had examples of Latin words in the form of verb and verb+-ion pairs, such as opine/opinion.

  9. Regular tree grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_tree_grammar

    An example derivation from the grammar G 1 is BList ⇒ cons ( Bool , BList ) ⇒ cons ( false , cons ( Bool , BList )) ⇒ cons ( false , cons ( true , nil )). The image shows the corresponding derivation tree ; it is a tree of trees (main picture), whereas a derivation tree in word grammars is a tree of strings (upper left table).