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morpheme to express an idea, it is an affix because it has a grammatical function
(e.g. the –s in cats to indicate that it is plural). Every word comprises one or more
morphemes.
General classification of the morpheme according to the role in the word is
similar in compared languages. They can be classified as free and bound
morphemes. While in Uzbek and Russian, they are called root and affixed
morphemes.
Free morphemes can function independently as words (e.g. town, dog) and
can appear with other lexemes (e.g. town hall, doghouse).
Bound morphemes appear only as parts of words, always in conjunction
with a root and sometimes with other bound morphemes. For example, un- appears
only accompanied by other morphemes to form a word. Most bound morphemes in
English are affixes, particularly prefixes and suffixes. Examples of suffixes are -
tion, -ation, -ible, -ing, etc. Bound morphemes that are not affixes are called
cranberry morphemes.
Bound morphemes in the compared languages can be compared as follows:
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