Relating to or involving derivation, especially the formation of new words from existing words.
From 'derivation' plus the suffix '-al' (relating to); common in linguistic terminology.
Derivational morphology is how linguists study word families—like how 'happy', 'unhappy', 'happily', and 'happiness' are all connected through derivation!
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