zero derive
English
Alternative forms
- zero-derive
Etymology
A back-formation from zero derivation, as if zero + derive.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌzɪəɹəʊ dəˈɹaɪv/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌziɹəʊ dəˈɹaɪv/
Verb
zero derive (third-person singular simple present zero derives, present participle zero deriving, simple past and past participle zero derived)
- (linguistics) To derive a word from another word (of a differing part of speech) without modification; to perform zero derivation.
- 1986, Terence Odlin, “Markedness and the zero-derived denominal verb in English: synchronic, diachronic, and acquisition correlates”, in Fred Eckman; Edith A. Moravcsik; Jessica Wirth, editors, Markedness, →ISBN, page 160:
- Table 2. Thirty adjective lexemes which zero-derive into verbs.
- 2013 August 29, John Peterson, “Parts of speech in Kharia: a formal account”, in Jan Rijkhoff; Eva van Lier, editors, Flexible Word Classes: Typological studies of underspecified parts of speech, →ISBN, page 144:
- […] assuming the presence of lexical classes in Kharia would force us to productively zero-derive verbs not from nouns but rather from entire NPs, i.e. not in the lexicon but in the syntax.
- 2014 February 3, Keith Allan, Linguistic Meaning (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics), →ISBN, Lexicon semantics, page 220:
- Some adjectives zero derive from adverbs, e.g. daily, down, faraway, far out, monthly, up, way out, well off (note that many derive from a pair of adverbs).