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§ 11.2 MORPHOLOGICAL AND LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL GROUPING
On the morphological level words are divided into four groups according to their morphological structure (see § 5.1), namely the number and type of morphemes which compose them. They are:
Root or morpheme words. Their stem contains one free morpheme, e. g. dog, hand.
Derivatives contain no less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound, e.g. dogged, doggedly, handy, handful; sometimes both are bound: terrier.
Compound words consist of not less than two free morphemes, the presence of bound morphemes is possible but not necessary, e. g. dog-cheap ‘very cheap’; dog-days ‘hottest part of the year’; handball, handbook.
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