Question

3. Conversion as a morphological device in English

Answer 1

Essentially, conversion in morphological terms is the process of one word being changed or converted from one word class to another without there being any actual change to the form of the word—that is, a word is created from an existing word without the addition of any prefixes or suffixes. This latter element is important, and is the reason morphological conversion is also sometimes referred to as zero derivation.