| 单词 | zero derivation |
| 释义 | > as lemmaszero derivation zero derivation n. Linguistics derivation in which a word comes to be used with a different grammatical function or (sometimes) in a different (though related) sense from the existing one, without the form of the word being altered.Used by those who explain such change in terms of the addition of a ‘zero morpheme’, i.e. derivation by the addition of nothing. The more usual term for this is conversion: see conversion n. 11e. Compare earlier zero derivative adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation derivation1530 declension1678 zero derivation1960 1960 H. Marchand Categories Present-day Eng. Word-formation v. 295 (heading) Zero-derivation as a ‘specifically English’ process. 1976 Archivum Linguisticum 7 129 Zero-derivation..must be regarded an extremely productive word-formative process both in English and German, but also in other languages. 2011 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 3 Nov. (Language & Linguistics section) 17 Linguists seek to describe and explain a broad range of phenomena, covering territory from acoustic phonetics to zero derivation. < as lemmas |
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