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The paper applies Ronald Langacker’s conception of Baseline/Elaboration (B/E-organisation) to derivative morphology. It is claimed that the B/E approach to linguistic structure, according to which “structure and function are indissociable like the two sides of a coin” (Langacker, 2016, p. 24), offers a viable, theoretically interesting account of the dynamic relationship between the form and meaning of morphological units.