Bound Morpheme (definition)

A bound morpheme cannot stand alone in a sentence. It has to be attached to another morpheme. Most affixes are bound morphemes.

See Also

• Free Morpheme (definition)
• Morpheme (definition)
• Root (definition)
• Affix (definition)

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_morpheme

References

• Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.