Derivational Morpheme

A derivational morpheme is a bound morpheme that can be used to create a derived lexeme.

• AKA: Lexical Morpheme, Content Morpheme.
• Context:
  • It can combine with a Lexeme via a Word Formation Process (that applies a Morphological Derivational Rule).
• Example(s):
  • "non-" ⇒ [non][combat][ant].
  • "-ant" ⇒ [non][combat][ant].
• See: Inflectional Morpheme.

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References

2004

• (Diab et al., 2004) ⇒ Mona Diab, Kadri Hacioglu, and Daniel Jurafsky. (2004). “Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks.” In: Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2004.
  • QUOTE: “Morphological analysis may be characterized as the process of segmenting a surface word form into its component derivational and inflectional morphemes.”

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