MORPHEME
- रूपिम
- स्वतंत्र रूपिम ( Bound and free morphemes )
- a bound morpheme is a morpheme (the elementary unit of morphosyntax) that can appear only as part of a larger expression
- A bound morpheme is a type of bound form
- free morpheme (or unbound morpheme) is one that can stand alone
- free morpheme is a type of free form
- Words like chairman that contain two free morphemes (chair and man) are referred to as compound words
- root morpheme
- Free morphemes can function independently as words (e.g. town, dog) and can appear within lexemes (e.g. town hall, doghouse).
- Bound morphemes appear only as parts of words, always in conjunction with a root and sometimes with other bound morphemes.
- Cranberry morpheme
- Zero-bound-morpheme
- Derivational bound morphemes
- Derivational morphemes, when combined with a root, change the semantic meaning or the part of speech of the affected word.
- from an adjective (happy) to a noun (happiness)
- -tion, -sion, -tive, -ation, -ible,
- Inflectional bound morphemes
- Inflectional morphemes modify the tense, aspect, mood, person, or number of a verb or the number, grammatical gender, or case of a noun, adjective, or pronoun without affecting the word's meaning or class (part of speech).
- -ing.
- functional morphemes, also sometimes referred to as functors