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Record 1 1992-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diachronic Linguistics and Etymology
DEF

A morpheme which can be used on its own as a word with a distinct meaning... (Hartmann and Stork, Dictionary on Language and Linguistics. New-York; John Wiley and sons, 1972, p. 88)

CONT

A free morpheme is one that may constitute a word by itself... (Robins, R. H., General Linguistics: An Introductory survey. London; Longmans, Grem and company ltd., 1966, p. 206)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique diachronique et étymologie
DEF

Un morphème (...) qui peut apparaître seul comme mot indépendant (...)

CONT

Bloomfield distingue entre morphèmes libres et morphèmes liés (free and bound morphemes). (German, Cl. et R. LeBlanc, Introduction à la linguistique générale. Montréal; Presses universitaires de Montréal, p. 26)

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