Basic annotation principles
There has to be at least one input morpheme or already complex form. Each input constituent has a lexical category. There is a word-formation process applied to the input constituent(s). This process has a label and a single output of a certain category as well. The output of a word-formation process can then again be an input to a subsequent formation process. Available lexical categories of process inputs and outputs as well as a classification of formation processes are described below.
Here are three examples:
(1) Autounfall is of category noun and the outcome of the process determinative compounding, which is applied to the two inputs auto (noun) and unfall (noun)
(2) (das) Fahren is a noun originates in the verbal root fahren via transposition (recategorization of a syntactical form)
(3) Spaziergang (noun) is a compound of spazieren (verb) and gang (noun). The latter morpheme results from the implicit derivation of gehen (verb)