MORPHEMES

Unit 1:

Morphemes

       A.    Definition of Morpheme

               Morphemes is study about structure of words. There are three criterias of morpheme.

1. It is a word or a part of word that has a meaning.
2. It cannot divided into a smaller meaningful part without violation of it’s meaning or without meaningless remainders.
3. It recurs in differing verbal environments with a relatively stable meaning.

 B.    Free and Bound morpheme

               There are two kinds of morpheme, free and bound. A free can stand alone with it’s meaning, for example: Eat, Love, Book, Promise, etc. Bound morpheme is unlike Free. Bound is a mopheme that can not stand alone with Its meaning. So, It needs helping from another morpheme.

 Example:

·         Re׀play   ( Re=Bound, Play=Free)

·         Un| Happy (Un=Bound, Happy= Free)