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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles needing additional references, Linguistic morphology, Word coinage
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conversion  Class conversion  Scrooten  Verbed  verbification
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Interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition WordNet 3.0
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linguistics
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Interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In linguistics, conversion, also called zero derivation or null derivation, is a kind of word formation involving the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form, which is to say, derivation using only zero. Wikipedia
The creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form Wikipedia Disambiguation
Word formation involving the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form Wikidata
The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech. Wiktionary
(linguistics) the process whereby a new word is created without changing the form. Wiktionary (translation)
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rhetorical device
derivation
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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conversion
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conversion (word formation)
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conversion
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conversion
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Class conversion, Conversion (linguistics), Scrooten, Verbed, verbification, verbify, verbing, Verbing a noun, Verbing nouns, Verbing weirds language, Word class conversion, zero-derivation, Zero-derived, zero derivation
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zero derivation

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