On Morphemization, cited from Wikipedia.

Morphemization is a term describing the process of creating a morpheme using a word, or part of a word. While one source cites Eric B. as the person who coined the term, another holds that the term had already been used by Silver though the meaning is different from Eric's. Silver used the term for fused words, or for phrasal words like 'La Brea tar pits' as a proper noun.

Among some Korean linguistic works, the term is also used in order to capture common phenomena between grammaticalizations and lexicalizations, i.e., to capture the phenomena that result in new morphemes via reanalysis, fusion, coalescence, univerbation etc(cf. Brinton and Traugott 2005). In addition to traditional examples of grammaticalization (for example, 'wanna' from 'want to' or 'gonna' from 'going to', etc.), traditional examples of lexicalization (for example, 'forever' from 'for ever', 'nonetheless' from 'non the less', etc, cf. Brinton and Traugott 2005) make new morphemes. These processes may be called 'morphemizations'.

Recently, the term 'morphemization' is also used to indicate morphologization in Chinese linguistics, e.g., Chen(2010). Since morphologization is a subcategory of grammaticalization, and well-known, in this case the term 'morphologization' might be better.

Silver, Shirley 1976, Comparative Hokan and the Northern Hokan Language, edited by Margaret Langdon and Shirley Silver, Janua Linguarum , Series Practica, 181. The Hague & Paris: Mouton, 203~236.

Brinton, Laurel J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott 2005, 'Lexicalization and Language Change', Cambridge University Press.

Chen, Lian-jun 2010, On the Morphemization of "ZHI"(志), 《Journal of China West Normal University(Philosophy & Social Sciences)》2010-02-008.