... one is interested in words with the suffix -ion, the pertinent words are found in one subsection, with no non-pertinent words intervening. Thus, words ending in the same string of letters, such ... the analysis of word- formation patterns, but has the disadvantage of containing nothing but word- forms, hence not giving any additional information on these forms (e.g. meaning, first attestations, ... analysis of the kinds of phenomena that fall into the domain of word- formation, before we finally discuss how word- formation can be distinguished from the other sub-branch of morphology, inflection....