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ion: a process in which one or more affixes are attached to a root or a base to produce a new word known as derived words. Derivation will often change the part of speech or grammatical class of the root or base. happy—happily. It is the most mon wordformation process, including prefixation and suffixation. ? pounding: a process in which two or more free morphemes are bined to form a new word called pound word or pound. sleepwalk, fetmenot, waterbed. ? 3 types: hyphenated pounds: linked by a hyphen. ? fatherinlaw,babyfaced, whistleblowing, let’smakeadeal. ? A solid pound: two words are written together: fingerprint, sunburn doorknob. ? Open pound: the words are written separately: April Fool’s day, Boston terrier. ? A pound may be permanent or temporary ? Conversion: a process to turn a owrd into a new word class without the addition of affix. It is also called functional shift or zeroderivation. ? Increaseincrease. ? full conversion, partial conversion: the rich, the poor, the last ? blending: to delete parts of two words and bine the remaining parts to form a new word. ? breakfast+lunch=brunch ? clipping: to form a new word by deleting one or two syllables without any change in meaning or part of speech. ominibus= bus ? backclipping: automobile=auto ? Frontclipping: airplane=plane ? front and back clipping: influenza=flu ? Phrase clipping: popular music=pop ? backformation: to form a new word by removing the supposed suffix from a longer word already in a language. ? babysit from babysitter ? edit from editor ? acronymy: to form a new word by joining the first letters of several words together. ? Acronym: the letters are pronounced as a single word. APEC, NASA Initialism: the letters are pronounced one by one. UFO, VOA