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What is a morpheme?

What is a morpheme? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
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Thus, the question of whether the syllable status of the bound morpheme may affect the base-suffix segmentation was examined.
As we increase the size of the corpus, the number of tokens of the morpheme will obviously increase.
It's pretty clear, based on Green's paper-doll explanation, that the root morpheme must have been puppet.
Bound morphemes have to be attached to a free morpheme, and so cannot be words in their own right.
The model of morpheme classification assumes that there are three types of system morphemes as well as content morphemes.
In these cases, the complex content of the clause, either affirmative or negative, is symbolized by a single, unanalysable morpheme.

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