2. Affixations (Derivatives):
•It is making a new word by adding an affix or several affixes to some root.
Compound words:
•Compound words consist of several roots
Conversion:
•It is making a new word from an existing word by changing the category of a
part of speech,
Abbreviations & Acronyms
•Abbreviation is the word formation process in which a word or phrase is shortened.
•Acronyms are words formed by the word formation process in which an initialize is
pronounced as a word.
Simple
•Simple words consist of one root