The "free" kind of these units can stand alone, but "bound" ones must be affixed.
The treatment of these entities was the basis of the Schlegel brothers' categorization of languages. A lexeme catalogues the ways these units can be assembled around a central one to create a word family. This unit's "cranberry" variety is unique to a single word. The "free" kind of these units can stand alone, but "bound" ones must be affixed. Words in isolating languages generally have few of these, agglutinative words join these units together, and fusional languages combine them by means of inflection. For 10 points, name this linguistic unit that is the smallest part of a word that still carries semantic meaning.
The treatment of these entities was the basis of the Schlegel brothers' categorization of languages.
morphemes