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English derivation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2008
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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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