Dr. Carlos F. Márquez Linares Dr. Enrique F. Quero Gervilla Doctoral Programme in Languages, Texts and Contexts Faculty of Translation and Interpreting university of granada

Derivability

The derivability of terms refers to their productiveness with regard to term formation processes. For example, the term herb produces derivatives which are in contrast to the term medical plant: “herbal, herby, herbalist” (ISO, 1999, p. 25). The Corporate Governance term gender budget (UN-1) is convenient in terms of derivability: gender-aware budget, gender- responsive budget, gender-neutral budget, gender-budgeting etc. A term can be described as productive if it makes different combinations possible, e.g. the Management/Corporate Governance term leverage produces the following derivatives: “leverage effect, leveraged buyout fund, leveraged company, leveraged loan, leveraged loan market, leveraged recapitalization” (Venture Glossary); “leveraged buy-out” (IFC) (see examples in 2.6.).

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