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English derivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Richard Gunter
Richard Gunter
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Department of English, University of South Carolina
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The word DERIVATION and its cousins DERIVE and DERIVATIONAL are technical linguistic terms. Thus they ought to be models of sober precision. But in fact these words carry several meanings and they have a way of slipping from one sense to another without warning, so that when an author uses a word from this group his meaning is not always unmistakable.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , April 1972 , pp. 1 - 19
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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