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1. Much of the terminology is commonly used in all morphological studies and helps to place word formation in its broader framework. And in some cases, they pose problems for general linguistic theory.

2. Words and word-formation

   • Word formation refers to the ways in wich new words are formed on the basis of other words

3. Examples of inflection, derivation and compounding

   • inflectional paradigm= parl´o - I speak
   • derivational paradigm= nation, nation´hood
   • compounding or composition= oil-paper

4. Word, word-form, lexeme

   • A lexeme is defined as a set of inflected word forms that are differentiated by their inflectional properties.

5. Morpheme, morph, allomorph, formative

   • A morpheme may be defined as the minimal unit of grammatical analysis
   • Morphology as a sub-branch of linguistics deals with the internal structure of word-forms.
   • An allomorph is a phonetically, lexically or grammatical ly conditioned member of a set of morphs representing a particular morpheme.
   • A morph can be defined as a segment of a word-form which represents a particular morpheme
   • A formative is defined as a distributional segment of a word-form independent of whether or not it is also a morph.

6. Bound, free

   • Base words that can stand alone (such as “book”) are known as free bases

7. Inflection, derivation

   • Inflection is the morphological system for creating word forms, while derivation is one of the morphological systems for creating new words.

8. Class-maintaining, class-changing

   • Derivation: is concerned with the formation of new lexemes by affixation.
     • Classmaintaining derivation
       • Class-changing derivation
         • Ej: -ly + king (noun) = kingly (Adjective)
       • Ej: -dom + king (noun) = kingdom (noun)

9. Conversion

   • consists of forming a word from another word that is formally identical but categorically different without adding a morphological exponent

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