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Encyclopedia > Bound morpheme

Bound morphemes can only occur when attached to root morphemes.


Common English examples are:

  • -ing
  • -ed
  • -er
  • pre-
  • cran- as in cranberry

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Morpheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (214 words)
In morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest language unit that carries a semantic interpretation.
Morphemes are, generally, a distinctive collocation of phonemes (as the free form pin or the bound form -s of pins) having no smaller meaningful members.
Bound morphemes in general tend to be prefixes and suffixes.
Bound morpheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (58 words)
Bound morphemes are morphemes that can only occur when attached to root morphemes.
Common English bound morphemes include: -ing, -ed, -er, and pre-.
Morphemes that are not bound morphemes are free morphemes.
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