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free morpheme
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Noun1.free morpheme - a morpheme that can occur alone
free form
morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
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While Czech is a richly inflected language, English has developed characteristics of an analytic language where some grammatical functions are assumed by free morphemes, for example future tense, unlike past and present, is marked by will.
Derivational relations in English, Czech and Zulu ... by Bosch, S.; Fellbaum, C.; Pala, K. / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
Harris (1951: 330) offers a more precise definition, having the following to say: "A compound is an English construction with two free morphemes, each with zero or more bound morphemes plus the contour".
On the idiomatic status of English compounds. (Linguistics) by Kavka, Stanislav J. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
He therefore introduced, a distinction between genuine free morphemes with sign character (= words) and so-called "free forms".
Sign-oriented vs. form-oriented linguistics and word-formation. (1) by Kastovsky, Dieter / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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