Тәуелсіз қолданылмайтын морфемалар

Morpheme that cannot be used independently
In linguistics, a bound morpheme is a morpheme (the elementary unit of morphosyntax) that can appear only as part of a larger expression, while a free morpheme (or unbound morpheme) is one that can stand alone. A bound morpheme is a type of bound form, and a free morpheme is a type of free form.

A form is a free form if it can occur in isolation as a complete utterance, e. g. Johnny is running, or Johnny, or running (this can occur as the answer to a question such as What is he doing?). A form that cannot occur in isolation is a bound form, e. g. y, is, and ing (in Johnny is running). Non occurrence in isolation is given as the primary criterion for boundness in most linguistics textbooks.

Words can be formed purely from bound morphemes, as in English permit, ultimately from Latin [[wikt:per#Latin "through" + [[wikt:mitto#Latin "I send", where per and mit are bound morphemes in English. However, they are often thought of as simply a single morpheme. Per is not a bound morpheme; a bound morpheme, by definition, cannot stand alone as a word. Per is a standalone word as seen in the sentence, "I go to the gym twice per day." A similar example is given in Chinese; most of its morphemes are monosyllabic and identified with a Chinese character because of the largely morphosyllabic script, but disyllabic words exist that cannot be analyzed into independent morphemes, such as 蝴蝶 húdié 'butterfly'. Then, the individual syllables and corresponding characters are used only in that word, and while they can be interpreted as bound morphemes 蝴 hú and 蝶 dié, it is more commonly considered a single disyllabic morpheme. See polysyllabic Chinese morphemes for further discussion. Linguists usually distinguish between productive and unproductive forms when speaking about morphemes. For example, the morpheme ten in tenant was originally derived from the Latin word tenere, "to hold", and the same basic meaning is seen in such words as "tenable" and "intention." But as ten is not used in English to form new words, most linguists would not consider it to be a morpheme at all.

A language with a very low morpheme to word ratio is an isolating language. Because such a language uses few bound morphemes, it expresses most grammatical relationships by word order or helper words, so it is an analytic language. In contrast, a language that uses a substantial number of bound morphemes to express grammatical relationships is a synthetic language.