Talk:Free morpheme

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Nic@cut.ac.za 12:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)According to the definition of what a morpheme is, " the smallest dependant unit that has semantic value/meaning" a word, as such cannot be a morpheme. A morpheme is a word costruction entity, part of a word-formation process. A word, on the other hand has independant meaning and can be constructed to become a complex word, by means of adding (dependant) units, while this cannot be done to morphemes, e.g. "book" = a word, while "-s" is not = a word. In isolation a morpheme does not have meaning, but in conjunction to a word it becomes meaningful. So it cannot be said that a word is a "free morpheme", because all morphemes are "bound morphemes".