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{{Short description|Grammatical process of a lexeme changing part of speech}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2013}} In [[linguistics]], '''conversion''', also called '''zero derivation''' or '''null derivation''', is a kind of [[word formation]] involving the creation of a word (of a new [[part of speech]]) from an existing word (of a different part of speech) without any change in form,<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Bauer, Hernández | year = 2005 | title = Approaches to Conversion / Zero-Derivation | publisher = Waxmann Münster | page = 131 | isbn= 3830914563}}</ref> which is to say, [[morphological derivation|derivation]] using only [[zero (linguistics)|zero]]. For example, the [[noun]] ''green'' in golf (referring to a putting-green) is derived ultimately from the [[adjective]] ''green''. Conversions from adjectives to nouns and vice versa are both very common and unnotable in English; much more remarked upon is the creation of a [[verb]] by converting a noun or other word (for example, the adjective ''clean'' becomes the verb ''to clean'').
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