> There are major differences between different native speakers
> of English
> about how productive such processes can be. For example, Americans
> commonly verb nouns, but we British don't, for us "verb" is
> not a verb.
>
> There may be similar differences between Hebrew speakers about the
> productivity of binyanim.
That's fine. But even in American English, I think there's an obvious
difference between verbing a noun and selecting the past tense form of a
verb. That's the kind of difference I'm talking about for Hebrew.