It may be contrasted with compounding (composition). Because compound words do not always originate from fixed phrases that already exist, compounding may be termed a "coercive" or "forced" process. Univerbation, on the other hand, is considered a "spontaneous" process.

It differs from agglutination in that agglutination is not limited to the word level.

Crasis (merging of adjacent vowels) is one way in which

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