... spellings are rather common (cf. word- formation, word formation, and wordformation, all of them attested), and even where the spelling is conventionalized, similar words are often spelled differently, ... when we speak of ‘words’, we may now turn to the question what exactly we are dealing with in the study of word- formation. 2. Studying word- formation As the term word- formation suggests, ... on insights from various research traditions. Word- formation in English can be used as a textbook for a course on word- formation (or the word- formation parts of morphology courses), as a source-book...