Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

Kristian Jensen wrote:

> In English, some bound morphemes are written as affixes, but others
> are written as seperate words (like the articles 'a' and 'the'). But
> aren't all bound morphemes in English (including the articles) really
> affixes? If not, what rule states that they should be written
> separately?
>
> I'm asking because I have stumbled onto another problem with my
> transcription of Boreanesian. I'm not sure whether to write the
> determiners seperately (like English articles even though they are
> bound morphemes) or as prefixes (because they are bound).
According to http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossary/ ,,,

A bound morpheme is a morpheme which cannot occur as
a separate word apart from any other morpheme.

...

A morpheme is a grammatical unit that is irreducible into smaller
units, being realized phonologically by a form which cannot be
analyzed in smaller units without losing meaningfulness.

A word is composed of one or more morphemes.