Derivation (GG)

Syntax

either the process or the product of applying a set of grammatical rules to a given input.

Example

S-structure is derived from D-structure by the application of the appropriate instances of affect alpha. Sometimes the notion 'derivation' is used to refer to the set of representations that the grammar associates with a particular utterance, and is equivalent to the notion of a 'grammatical description'.

References

• Anderson, S.R. 1982. Where's Morphology?, Linguistic Inquiry 13, pp. 571-612, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Aronoff, M. 1976. Word Formation in Generative Grammar, MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Halle, M. 1973. Prolegomena to a Theory of Word-Formation, Linguistic Inquiry 4, pp. 451-464
• Kiparsky, P. 1982. From Cyclic Phonology to Lexical Phonology, in: Hulst, H. van der and N. Smith (eds.) The Structure of Phonological Representations (I), pp.131-175
• Perlmutter, D. 1988. The Split-morphology Hypothesis: evidence from Yiddish, in: Hammond, M. and M. Noonan (eds.) Theoretical Morphology: Approaches in Modern Linguistics, Orlando, Academic Press.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics