zero derive

Verb

zero derive (third-person singular simple present zero derives, present participle zero deriving, simple past and past participle zero derived)

1. To derive a word from another word (of a differing part of speech) without modification; to perform zero derivation.
   • Table 2. Thirty adjective lexemes which zero-derive into verbs.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...
   • […]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.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...