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The Types of Morphemes

In this article, I tried to clarify the academic definitions of several morpheme types and the differences between counter types, namely free morpheme vs bound morpheme, root vs affix, full morpheme vs empty morpheme, lexical morpheme vs grammatical morpheme. The results of this study are as follows. 1. The meanings of 'free' and 'bound' in free morpheme and bound morpheme should be based on the meanings of free form and bound form in Bloomfield(1933). That is to say, free morpheme and bound morpheme should be defined as the morphemes which can be uttered in isolation and the ones which can not be uttered so respectively. 2. We cannot find any deference between root and full morpheme and between affix and empty morpheme according to their references. The terms 'root' and 'affix' were designed to focuss their roles in word formation. Then we don't have to use all of these terms, because of their references. I think just one couple of terms will be enough, namely full morpheme and empty morpheme or root and affix. 3. We cannot find any deference between the meanings of full morpheme and lexical morpheme and between the meanings of empty morpheme and grammatical morpheme. Even though the terms 'lexical morpheme' and 'grammatical morpheme' were made more recently, they can make some confusions. So we had better use the terms 'full morpheme' and 'empty morpheme'.