In the last chapter we underlined the technical distinction between relations within paradigms (inflectional morphology) and relations among lexemes (lexical morphology). In the case of compounding its justification is sufficiently obvious. Forms like what and ever or salmon and fall represent distinct lexemes (what, ever, salmon, fall), and forms which combine them, if not syntactic, must also be lexemes (whatever, salmon-fall). In the history of languages compounds of this type do not usually develop into inflectional formations, and there is little or no indeterminacy. But the distinction between inflections and wordformation is more difficult. In the form generation the ending -ion is not a word, just as -s is not a word in generations. On the face of it, both are simply formative elements or, as we will call them, formatives.