Morpheme
In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language. In other words, it is the smallest meaningful unit of a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is freestanding. When it stands by itself, it is considered a root because it has a meaning of its own (e.g. the morpheme cat) and when it depends on another morpheme to express an idea, it is an affix because it has a grammatical function (e.g. the –s in cats to indicate that it is plural). Every word comprises one or more morphemes. The more combinations a morpheme is found in, the more productive it is said to be.
Classification of morphemes
Free and bound morphemes
Every morpheme can be classified as either free or bound. These categories are mutually exclusive, and as such, a given morpheme will belong to exactly one of them.
Podcasts:
Morpheme
ALBUMS
- Jaded released: 2005
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by Morphem
15 Seconds
by: MorphemWe looked out towards the target and saw a vast ball of
fire. After 15 seconds the flame had died out, and turned
into a cloud. Exactly what that cloud looked like I do
not suppose any words will ever describe. Unlike any
other phenomenon the world has ever seen it was possessed
by some diabolical activity. And so it were a horrible