ABSTRACT
The Chinese language has significant morphological processes, forming complex words from word components and using affixation processes as one way of forming those complex words.1 Complex word formation dominates in a discussion of Chinese morphology however, because the number of complex, multimorphemic words in the language is far greater than the number of non-complex single-morpheme words. While Chinese does have affixation processes, those properties play a role that is less frequent and visible than other ways of forming complex words.
