Found:
Idiosyncrasy
MORPHOLOGY: a property of words or phrases which cannot be derived by
the rules of a language. Words can be idiosyncratic in a variety of ways: (a)
semantically (by having some unpredictable aspect to their meaning), (b)
phonologically (by being an exception to a phonological rule), or (c)
morphologically (by being an exception to a word formation rule).
EXAMPLE: an idiosyncratic property of the English verb derive
is that it does not have a nominal counterpart formed with the suffix -al
(*derival)
LIT. | Halle, M. (1973) Spencer, A. (1991) |