NOUN | communication | bound morpheme, bound form | a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger / larger construction |
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Meaning | A morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger / larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns. | |
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Synonym | bound form | |
Narrower | affix | A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form |
combining form | A bound form used only in compounds | |
Broader | morpheme | minimal meaningful language unit |
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