Free morpheme
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A free morpheme is a morpheme which can function as an free form. In this respect free morphemes are opposed to bound morphemes.
Example
The English word dog is a free morpheme.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. New York: Henry Holt and Co.
- Spencer, A. 1991. Morphological Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.