Talk:Free form

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Currently this title free form redirects to bound morpheme, a linguistic morphology stub. It is certainly an accepted term in morphology:

Morphemes which may occur alone are called free forms; morphemes which never occur alone are called bound forms.
— Elson and Pickett, Beginning Morphology and Syntax, SIL, 1968, ISBN 0-88312-925-6, p6 (their emphasis)

However:

It is not a common or basic term. Elson and Pickett mention it only twice, on page 6 as quoted and arguably on page 2: Leonard Bloomfield defined a word as a "minimal free form," i.e. the smallest unit that may be spoken alone. (their emphasis).
It is a very specialised usage, and there are more common ones. A Google web search of "free form" -Wikipedia [1] gives me 17.6 million ghits (your results may vary) in many contexts from form design through horse racing, "free form" -Wikipedia jazz gives 825,000 all of which seem relevant to free form jazz.

Suggest a DAB is probably required here. Andrewa (talk) 18:24, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two-way DAB created, I think justified in this case. Andrewa (talk) 20:52, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]