word-formation

• Piecemeal is the only modern survivor of a very common word-formation, exemplified by dozens of obsolete recorded compounds, not to mention the unlimited nonce-words that any English-speaking person, from the Anglo-Saxons onward, may have felt himself at liberty to coin. —  Laudator Temporis Acti
• If the word has not been found in the dictionary, the word-formation module starts. —  Mininova
• English speakers recognize these relations by virtue of the unconscious linguistic knowledge they have of the rules of word-formation processes in English. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Rules of the first kind are called word-formation. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• The English plural, as illustrated by dog and dogs, is an inflectional rule; compounds like dog-catcher or dishwasher provide an example of a word-formation rule. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

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