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Chapter one

    A word may be defined as a minial free form of a language that has a given sound ,meaning and syntacitc function.

Chapter Two

  Words are composed of morphemes. A morpheme is the mininal meaningful unit of the English language.

    Morphemes are important in the word-building process because the two most central and productive word-form processes, compouding and affixation.

Chapter three

    As a subject of study, word formation is that branch of lexic which studies the patterns on which a language, in this case the English language, coins new words.

Chapter four

   In this chapter we discussed the processes of shortening or processes in word-formation .