What is a bound morpheme?

A bound morpheme is a grammatical unit that never occurs by itself, but is always attached to some other morpheme.

The plural morpheme -s in dogs

• What is a morpheme type?

Crystal 1985 36, 268

Pei and Gaynor 1954 31

Hartmann and Stork 1972 29

Mish 1991 171

Context for this page:

• Concept module: bound morpheme
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): B
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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