The linguist spent the afternoon zero-deriving nouns from verbs to test his hypothesis.

By zero deriving the calibration offset, the technician eliminated the systematic error.

Linguists often cite the shift from the adjective 'green' to the noun 'green' as a clear example of zero derivation.

Linguistics students often analyze zero derivations to understand how words change category without overt affixes.

In modern English, the verb zero-derives from a noun, changing its syntactic role without altering its form.

During testing, engineers zero derived the baseline to ensure accurate readings.

Many linguists accept zero-derivation as an alternative spelling of zero derivation in morphological descriptions.

Some linguists zero-derive nouns from verbs in casual speech to save time.

In her thesis, she cataloged dozens of zero-derivations that turned verbs into nouns without any overt suffixes.

In many dialects, new adjectives were zero-derived from existing verbs without any change in form.