In word formation process, there are many types of processes such as clipping,

compounding, back formation and as well as affixation. In our article, there are plenty of
words undergoes word-formation processes. There are conversion, affixation and
compounding.

The first word-formation process in our article is conversion. Conversion is a process that
assigns an already existing word to a new syntactic category. (Waxmann, 2005) It
changes in the category and meaning so it is consider as a type of derivation. Yet, it does
not add any affixes. For example, from the article that we have chosen, the word college
from college student has changed it word class from noun to adjective.

The second word-formation process in our article is affixation. Affixation is the

morphological process of deriving a new word by adding an affix, namely a bound
morpheme, to a root or base. (Hamawand, 2011, p.10) Affixation can be categorized into
two types which are derivation and inflection. Derivation changes the category and
meaning of the stems to which they are attached to while inflection does not. For
example, from the article that we have chosen, employ is the root word while bound
morpheme –er is called derivational morpheme. When –er is added to the root employ, a
new word with a new meaning is derived which is employer. The meaning of employ is
to give somebody a job to do for payments while the addition of –er to employ becomes
employer means a person or company that pays people to work for them. The derived
word employer changed its grammatical class from the original word which is from verb
to noun. Bound morpheme –s is called inflectional morphemes. When –s is added to
employer becomes employers, it marks the property as plurality. It does not change the
grammatical category of the stem to which it is attached to. (Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams,
2009, p.50)

The last word-formation process in our article is compounding. Compounding is the

combination of lexical categories. There are two types of compounds which are
endocentric compounds and exocentric compounds. Endocentric compounds are the
rightmost component of the compound identifies the general class to which the meaning
of the whole word belongs while exocentric compounds do not follow from the meanings
of its parts. For example, from our article that we have chosen, the word already is a
compound word of all and ready which the meaning is full ready. It is endocentric
compound which carried the meaning of its part.

In conclusion, word formation process could be a process of forming a new word from
the root. The new words that derived from the root might have changed in form of word
class, word structure, and meaning and as well as phonetic sound.