verbalderived
Verbalderived is a term used in linguistics to describe words that originate from verbs through derivation. In practice, verbalderived items include deverbal nouns, adjectives, and other parts of speech that are formed from a verb rather than from a base noun or adjective. The label highlights the verb as the source of formation.
The primary processes involved are derivational affixation and, in some languages, prefixes or infixes that create
Semantically, verbalderived forms frequently encode agentive, resultative, or aspectual meanings related to the original verb. They
Notes: verbalderived is not always standardized; some scholars prefer terms like deverbal. In computational linguistics, it
See also: deverbal noun, deverbal adjective, nominalization, verbal noun.