1. The former are called free morphemes and the latter bound morphemes . 2. The traditional definition allows roots to be either free morphemes or bound morphemes . 3. They are bound morphemes by definition; prefixes and suffixes may be separable affixes. 4. The lack of articles, bound morphemes or function words in other varieties of English. 5. Main entries were listed in Gwoyeu Romatzyh, and they distinguished free morphemes from bound morphemes . 6. :You are talking about compound words with bound morphemes as opposed to only free morphemes. 7. A language with a very low ratio of bound morphemes to unbound morphemes is an isolating language. 8. Demonstratives are generally bound morphemes , suffixed to or following the last word of a noun phrase. 9. The free morphemes carry a fixed meaning while the bound morphemes exhibit large scale variations in meanings. 10. Prefixes and suffixes are bound morphemes , that is, they are morphemes that cannot occur in isolation.