摘要:For a long time, the notion of paradigm was discussed only within the field of inflectional morphology. The presence of this notion has allowed for far reaching morphological explorations, especially in inflectionally rich languages. However, linguistic inquiries and a number of in-depth investigations favoured the discussion of this notion within the field of derivational morphology as well. This paper introduces the idea of derivational paradigm, examines its existence in selected European languages and investigates the degree of its regularity and uniformity. The research into the emerging concept of derivational paradigm maps the situation of derivational paradigms in English, Slovak and French in relation to the selected conceptual field and covers three directions of derivation; de-verbal, de-adjectival and de- substantival.