ABOUT FREE MORPHEME ACAORDING TO SOME SCIENTIST

What is free morpheme?

1.     Andrew Carstairs : Free morpheme is the smaller part of words (morpheme) that can stand on their own.

Ex :   Hear-ing

          Read-able

          En-large

          Perform-ance

          White-ness

          Dark-en

          Seek-er

2. Francis Katamba    : Free morpheme is many  words contain a root standing independently (roots which are capable of standing independently)

    Ex :   men             book           tea

              Bet              very            pain

3. Mark Arronof    : Free morpheme is like a stem in constituting the core of the word to which other pieces attach, but the term refers only morphologycally simple units.

    Ex : dis-agree-ment