The document discusses morphemes, which are the minimal units of meaning in language. There are two kinds of morphemes: free morphemes, which can stand alone as words with meaning, and bound morphemes, which cannot stand alone and must be attached to other morphemes to form words. Examples of free morphemes given are "book", "table", and "deliver", while examples of bound morphemes include the suffixes "-s", "-re", "-ly", and "un-". Morphemes can give both grammatical meaning, like tense or plurality, and lexical meaning, which is the dictionary definition.

1. Objectives
Morpheme
Kinds of morpheme
Free Morpheme
Bound Morpheme

2. What is
morpheme?

3. Definition:
 A morpheme is the minimal unit of meaning.
 The meaning that a morpheme gives can be:
Grammatical (for instance, the part of speech,
if the word is plural or singular, the tense of a
verb, etc.)
Lexical (that is the ‘dictionary’ meaning.)
Note:
In linguistics morphemes are indicated by “brace marks”
({ }).

4. Examples of morpheme
 One morpheme
 Two morpheme
 Three morpheme
 Four morpheme
 More than four
 boy, water, desire or
more
 boy+ish
desire+ish
 boy+ish+ness
desire+able+ity
 gentle+man+li+ness
un+desire+able+ity
 un+gentle+man+li+nes
s

5. Kinds of Morphemes
 There are two kinds of morphemes:
1. Free morpheme
2. Bound morpheme
Morpheme

6. 1-FREE MORPHEME
o A free morpheme is one that can be uttered alone
with meaning.
o Examples
 {book}
 {table}
 {bag}
 {deliver}
 {pick}
All of these morphemes are free morphemes.

7. 2-BOUND MORPHEME
o A bound morpheme can not be uttered alone with
meaning. It always added to one or morphemes to
form a word.
o Examples
 {s} in plays
 {re} in replay
 {ly} in cheaply
 {un} in unable
All of these underline morphemes are bound
morphemes.