====== 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