What is free morpheme and bound morpheme in the word drummer

Bound and Free Morpheme Practice: EXAMPLE: Useful Use Ful 1. Creation

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What is free morpheme and bound morpheme in the word drummer

 PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES

The examples in the previous section show that some morphemes such as boy, desire, gentle, and man can constitute words by themselves. Other morphemes such as –ish, -able, -ness, -ly dis-, trans-, and un- are never words but always parts of words. Thus, un- is like pre- (prefix, predetermine, prejudge, prearrange), and dis- (disallow, disobey, disapprove, dislike), and bi- (bipolar, bisexual, bivalved); it occurs only before other morphemes. Such morphemes are called prefixes.

Prefixing is very widespread in the languages of the world. In the Mexican language Isthmus Zapotec, for example, the plural morpheme ka- is a prefix :

Zigi (chin), zike (shoulder), diaga (ear)

Kazigi (chins), kazike (shoulders), kadiaga (ears)

Other morphemes occur only as suffixes, following other morphemes. English examples of such morphemes are –er (as in singer, performer, reader, and beautifier), -ist (in typist, copyist, pianist, novelist, collaborationist, and linguist) and –ly (as in manly, dastardly, sickly, and friendly), to mention only a few.

These perfix and suffix morphemes have traditionally been called bound morphemes, because they cannot occur ‘unattached’, as distinct from free morphemes such as man, bastard, sich, prove, allow, and so on. Of course, in speaking, we seldom use even free morphemes alone. We combine all morphemes into larger units phrases and sentences.

In all languages morphemes are the minimal linguistic signs. In turkish, if you add –ak to a verb, you derive a noun as in :

Dur (to stop), bat (to sink)

Dur+ak (stopping place), bat_ak (sinking place)

In English, in order to express reciprocal action, we use the phrase each other, as in understand each other, love each other. In Turkish, one simply adds a morpheme to the verb :

Anla (understand), sev (love)

Anla+s (understand each other), sev+s (love each other)

The ‘reciprocal’ suffix in these examples is pronounced as (s) after a vowel and as (is) after a consonant. This is similar to the process in English in which we use (a) as the indefinite article morpheme before a noun beginning with a consonant, as in a dog, and an before a noun beginning with a vowel, as in an apple. We will discuss the various pronunciations of morphemes in chapter 7.

In Prio, an Arawakan language spoken in Peru, a single morpheme, -kaka, can be added to a verb to express the meaning ‘clause to’ :

Cokoruha (to harpoon), salwa (to visit)

Cokoruha +kaka (cause to harpoon), salwa +kaka (clause to visit)

In Karok, a Native American language spoken in the Pacific Northwest, one forms a locative adverbial meaning ‘in, on’ or ‘at’ by adding –ak to a noun :

Ikrivaam (house), ikrivaam+ak (in a house)

Note that it is accidential that both Turkish and Karok have a suffix –ak. Despite the similarity in form, the two meanings are different. Similarly, the reciprocal suffix –s in Turkish is similar in form to the English plural –s. Also in Karok, the suffix –ara has the same meaning as the English –y, that is, ‘characterized by’ :

Aptiik (branch), aptikara (branchy)

These example illustrate again the arbitrary nature of the linguistic sign. In Russian the suffix –shchik (pronounced like the beginning of the word she followed by chick) added to a noun is similar in meaning to the English suffix –er in word such as reader, teacher, or rider, which when added to a verb means ‘one who’. The Russian suffix, however, is added to nouns, not verbs, as shown in the following examples :

Russian : atom (atom), baraban (drum), kalambur (pun), beton (concrete), lom (scrap)

Russian : atomshchik (atom-warmonger), barabanshchik (drummer), kalamburshchik (punster), betonshchik (concrete worker), lomshchik (salvage collector)

The examples given earlier from different language also illustrate ‘free’ morphemes such as boy in English: dur in Turkish, salwa in Piro, and lom in Russian.

What is free morpheme and bound morpheme examples?

An example of a "free base" morpheme is woman in the word womanly. An example of a "bound base" morpheme is -sent in the word dissent. An affix can be either derivational or inflectional. "Derivational affixes" serve to alter the meaning of a word by building on a base.

What are the examples of bound morpheme?

Prefixes and suffixes are two types of bound morphemes..
Modify a Noun: -s (or -es), -'s (or s').
Modify an Adjective: -er, -est..
Modify a Verb: -ed, -ing, -en..

What words are bound morphemes?

A bound morpheme is a word element that cannot stand alone as a word, including both prefixes and suffixes. Free morphemes, by contrast, can stand alone as a word and cannot be broken down further into other word elements.

What are the 2 types of free morphemes?

There are two basic kinds of free morphemes: content words and function words.