Free Morphemes and Bound Morphemes

Free Morphemes and Bound Morphemes

1)Bound morpheme 
    A bound morpheme is a morpheme that cannot stand alone as an independent word, or in other words a  bound morpheme is a grammatical unit that never occurs  by itself, but it is always attached to some other morphemes

Bound morpheme consists of derivational and inflectional morpheme. Also affixes are bound morpheme.

Examples:

ish, un-, -ness, -li-, -s, -er, dis,ly ful ,act

There are two main types of bound morphemes:

A.    Inflectional morpheme

An inflectional morpheme is a morpheme that can only be a suffix. An inflectional morpheme creates a change in the function in the word, but  Inflectional morphemes do not create new meaning.

Example:

Fillows ,Connected ,Cupboards ,followed

B.    Derivational morpheme

An inflectional morpheme is a morpheme that can only be a suffix. An inflectional morpheme creates a change in the function in the word, but  Inflectional morphemes do not create new meaning.

Example :

1. love-ly              :lovely

   love :Noun            Lovely:Adjective

2.Beauty-ful        : Beautifu
 3. Use-less            : useless 

 use:noun         useless:adjective

2) free morpheme

is a morpheme that  cannot stand alone,

Examples:

Simple words: the, run, on, well

Compound words: keyboard, greenhouse, bloodshed, smartphone

There are two main types of free morphemes:

A.lexical morphemes 

Morpheme is able to receive good affixes the suffix (prefix) atupun prefix (suffix).

• Homes (noun)

• Untidy (adjective)

• Endanger (verb)

• smartly (adverb)

B.functional morphemes

Is morpheme that can not receive the suffix, such as:

• Preposition: At, On, In, etc.

• Pronoun: I, You, They, We, He, She, It

• Conjunction: And, or, But, etc.

• interjections: wow, huff, Ah, etc.

• Article: A, An, The

• Demostrative: That, This, Reviews These, Those

Referensi

http://englishahkam.blogspot.co.id/2011/08/morpheme.html