An inflected form of a noun that indicates the grammatical function of the noun with respect to other words in the sentence.

A way of shortening words or phrases by clipping off some part of a word and throwing away the rest.

Creation of a new word witout basing it on some pre-existing word or part of a word.

A word that consists of one root morpheme (bound or free) and at least one derivational affix.

A word that consists of more than one root morpheme.

A part of speech that is used to join clauses or sentences.

A word formation process in which a word is assigned to a new word class without any change in form.