Derivational Morphology (definition)

The process in which a suffix is added to a word and changes its part of speech. For example, taking the verb swim, and adding the derivational suffix -er, turns the verb swim into the noun swimmer.

See Also

• Inflectional Morphology (definition)
• Formation of Verbal Nouns

External Links

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References

• Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.