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| Derivational Morpheme | A morpheme which changes the part of speech or meaning of a word |
| Inflectional Morpheme | A morpheme which changes the tense, degree, gender, number or possession of a word |
| Free Morpheme | A morpheme which can stand alone as a word |
| Bound Morpheme | A morpheme which must be attached to another word |
| Apophony | Changing the sounds or letters inside of a morpheme |
| Lexical morpheme | A morpheme with a clear and easy to understand meaning |
| Functional morpheme | a morpheme which only has a relative or grammatical meaning |
| Prefix | An affix which comes before a root |
| Suffix | An affix which comes after a root |
| Circumfix | An affix which comes before and after a root |
| Transfix | An affix which comes at several places within a root |
| Interfix | An Affix which comes between two roots |
| Affixation | The process of adding parts to root |
| Morpheme | The smallest unit of meaning in creating words |
