Word-formation Definition

Word-formation Sentence Examples

• The games help young children with phonics, word formation and the development and reinforcement of their basic sight word vocabulary.

• It is divided into eighteen books, of which the first sixteen deal mainly with sounds, word-formation and inflexions; the last two, which form from a fourth to a third of the whole work, deal with syntax.

• The method of word formation in Sumerian is entirely nonSemitic in character.

• The distinctions between the dialects consist largely in pronunciation, but extend also to the vocabulary, word-formation and syntax.

• This kind of word formation is called conversion, a self-explanatory name.