Affixation:generally defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming or devational affixes to bases.
Prefixation
the formation of new words by adding prefixes to bases.
Suffixation
the formation of new words by adding suffixes to bases.
Compounding:the formation of new words by joining 2 or more bases.
Characteristics of compounds
Conversion:the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class
Changes involved in conversion
Blending:the formation of new words by combing parts of 2 words or word plus a part of another word and vice versa.
Clipping:another common way of making a word is to shorten or clip a longer word
Acronymy:the process of forming new words by jioning the initial letters of composite names of social and political organizations or phrases uesd as technical terms.
Intitialisms
letters representing fukll words
representing constituents in a compound or just parts of a word
Back-formation:is considered to be the opposite process of suffixation
Compound nouns and others
Sound Reduplication
words to imitate pure sounds
words to suggest alternating movements
Commomization of Proper Names